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From the Boston Morning! Po^^ — Extra. 
THE IDENTITV OF THE OLD HARTFORD CONVEN- 
TION FEDERALISTS WITH THE MODERN WHIG 
HARRISON PARTY, CAREFULLY ILLUSTRATED 
BY LIVING SPECIMENS, AND DEDICATED TO THE 
YOUNG MEN OF THE UNION. 

Old party distinctions are revived. The fund- 
mg and national debt and National Bank sys- 
tems of Hamilton, which Jefferson weakened, 
Jackson vetoed, and Van Buren abolished, are 
strenuously urged a?ain by the party that so clam 
'. orously support William H. Harrison for Presi- 
dent. While General Harrison is held up at the 
South as opposed to a United Stales Bank, he is 
known to be under the guidance of men at the 
^v North, who mean by "Reforai" the restoration 
N^of a tJnited States Bank. 

To disguise the end, it is pretended by those who 
" use Harrison as the "instrument" to revive Fede- 
ralism and the Bank, that they are in fact the 
Democratic party, the disciples of Jefferson and 
Madison; while Jackson, Van Buren, and the sup- 
porters of their administrations, are the old Fede- 
ralists ! 

Fatuity could not have feigned, nor credulity 
compassed, that such a pretence would be set up, 
had we not seen that there are men among us, 
claiming to have rational souls, who make the 
drinking of hard cider the rallying test and stimu- 
lus of their party. Having seen this, we may 
■well be prepared to see any thing, however absurd, 
from such a party. 

In the Boston Atlas of August 4, 1840, may be 
found the following: 

"The present Whigs are not the old Hartford 
Convention Federalists. We all know that that 
class of politicians became dissatisfied with John 
Q,. Adams, and pending the second canvass went 
over to Andrew Jackson ! The great Republican 
party adhered to their allegiance, and were then, 
as they now are, true Demacrats of the Jefferson 
school, constituting the present Whig party." 

The recklessness of Wliigery leaves nothing 
sacre J. History must be turned out of doors, and 
falsehood put in her place. Since, then, this al- 
leged change of old parties is to be falsely assumed 



monument of Jefferson, and place it over the bones 
of Federalism, thank themselves for having com- 
pelled^ns to restore it to- its right place, with its 
true inscription, and expose the rottenness it has 
beenmade to cover. We would pain no living 
man connected with those scenes. Many of ihem 
are venerable, and most estimable in private life. 
We would tread lightly on the ashes of the dead; 
but truth — historic truth — eternal truth — must not, 
and shall not, be sacrificed. 

Assertions are so recklessly made in these times, 
by systematic writers of falsshood, that the man of' 
truth is rarely believed on his mere word. We 
shall therefore support every assertion with proof, 
and this will necessarily make the detail of evi- 
dence somewhat voluminous. Its importance will 
repay a patient examination. 

The assertion of the British Whig party, who 
support Harrison, is that they are the true Jefferso- 
nian Democratic Republican party; and that the old 
Hartford Convention Federalists have gone over to 
Jackson and Van Buren in a body ! 

This assertion is impudently made here in Mas- 
sachusetts, in the leading organ of Mr. Daniel 
Webster. Here, then, it should be examined; for 
iVIassachusetls was the cradle of the Hartford Con- 
vention, as she has been, and will continue to be, 
the death bed of old parties. 

This assertion in the Atlas has a meaning. It 
follows close upon the display, of "the significant 
banner" at Baltimore, by the Boston Harrison De- 
legation, and closer still upon the declaration of 
Mr. Daniel Webster, at t'he Log Cabin gattering ia 
Alexandria, in the District of Columbia,. the llth 
of June last, when he pledged his men of the 
North to go with the men of the South, in elect- 
ing Harrison to the Presidency. 

That was a meeting ominous to the South, de- 
ceptive to the North. 

The secret policy of tampering with the Aboli- 
tionists of the North had been perfected, so far as 
it could be carried without endangering the South. 
Mr. Webster relied on party machinery to carry 
the Whig Abolitionists of his section, let him say 
what he would to the South; and he took the occa- 
sion at Alexandria, just upon the diselosure of G&" 



to practice on the young men who have not ex- neral Harrison's secret letter to Mr. Ev^ns, to pro- 
amined the subject, it becomes indispensable to pat claim an alliance with the South, in the hope of 
it right. Let those who have sought to seiae the ' strengtheaiHg General Harrisoa in that section, and 



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doing away the effect of the discovery of Mr. Wil- 
liam B. CalhouQ's correspondence with the Aboli- 
tionists ol Massachusetts. 

liiQi^c are the memorable words Mr. Webster 
used on that occasion : 

"WE HAVE MADE WlLLIAM HeNRY HaRRISON 
THE BEARER OF OUR STANDARD !" 

Who are ihey, and what is their standard? 
Where have they ever been, and where do they 
ever mean to be? 

This is not the first time that Mr. Webster ha^ 
officiated in the ceremony of a l°ft-handed marriage 
between the Federalists of Massachusetts and the 
Whigs of the South and West. 

The 10th of November, 1837, Mr. John Bell, of 
Tennessee, appeared at a great Whig meeting in 
Faueail Hall, Boston, and standing beside Daniel 
Webster, who presided in that meeting, Mr. Bell 
exclaimed, " Tennessee is in principle with Massa- 
chusetts." 

The sam« men who stood by Mr. Webster to 
ratify that alJ: ncc — the John Davises, the Benja- 
min Rusfcels, 1..2 I. C. Batcses, and the Saitonstalls, 
are now his vouchers for the pledge at Alexandria 
Who and where are ihey? 

Daniel Webr.er was the author of the Rocking- 
ham Circular, adopted by a convention of Federal- 
ists in New Hampshire, denouccin,:^ die war, from 
which he WiS transferred to Congi'^ss. Previous 
to this, in 1606, he delivered »n oration, the 4th of 
July, before " the Federal gentlemen " of Concord, 
tfew Hampshire, in which he inveighed against 
President Jefferson, and denounced him for his love 
of peace and regard to economy. 

"Patriotism," said he, "has given place to the 
spirit of economy. Regard to national honor is 
absorbed in a thirst for gain, and a desire to save." 

In his pamphlet against the embargo, Mr. Web- 
stej said of Jefferson — 

" When a man's pretensions are utterly incon- 
sistent with his actions, his pretensions must be 
false. The motive assigned for laving the embar- 
go was never the true motive. When we have a 
British war, we of course [shall] have a French 
alUance, and surrender our liberties and indepen- 
dence to the protection of Bonaparte." 

In 1812, at a Federal convention held m Brent- 
wood, Mr. Webster reported rejoluiions justifying 
the public enemy, and condemning his own Go- 
vernment. 

While in Congress, he opposed the war at every 
step. Among volumes of speeches, denouncing the 
war and the Administration, he said — 

" Utterly astjnished at the declaration of war, I 
have been surprised at nothing since. I saw how 
it would be prosecuted, when I saw how it was 
begun. Tbere is an unchangeable relation between 
rash councils and feeble execution." 

"They (the Federalists) know the limit of con- 
stitutional opposition. Up to that limit they will 
walk, and walk fearlessly." 

He thus e> ulted at the defeat of our arms and the 
murderous lOioads of the savages: 

"This is not the entertainment to which we were 
invited. We are told that these disappointments 
are owing to the opposition which the war encoun- 
ters. This is no new strain. It is the constant 
Suae of every weak or wicked Admiaistratioa !" 



Let the recorded votes of Mr. Webster in Con- 
gress s!tow where he was and ever has been. 

July 1, 1813, Dan-el Webster voted against a 
bill for asiressing and collecting taxes to sustain the 
war; July 9th, against a bill for duties on refined 
sugars and sales at auction. 

January 7, 1814, he voted against a bill to fill 
the ranks of ihe army; January 10, against a bill 
to detect and punish traitors and spies; January 
22, against a bill to erilist troops duriijg the war, 
in a minority of seven.; January 25, against en- 
forcing the noK-importation laws; February 8, 
against raising five regiments; March 29, against 
•calling out the militia to execute the laws and re- 
pel invasion; December 1, against providing 
revenue for maintaining the public credit; De- 
cember 10, against calling on the States for their 
qno'as of militia to defend the frontiers; on the 
19th, against a bill to provide for the expenses of 
the war, and against a bill to provide foi rebuilding 
the capital and public offices, which had been burnt 
by the enemy ! 

In thi same spirit, in 1836, when we were 
threatened with a French war, and it was proposed 
to put meEfeis in the hands of Andrew Jackson to 
defend the country, Daniel Webster exclaimed in 
the United States Senate, "I would not vote for 
the bill if the enemy were battering down the 
walls of the capitol." 

A very natural sentiment from the man who 
voted against rebuilding the capitol after the ene- 
my had burnt it down. 

So much for the army. What did Mr. Web- 
ster do for the navy? He now pretends that 
was his favorite in the war, and the Federalists 
lately gave him a cane made from wood of Perry's 
flag ship. What did he do for the navy? 

The 7th of January, 1814, Mr. Webster voted 
against an appropriation of one million for de- 
fraying the expenses of the navy! This was less 
than four months after the victory cf Perry on the 
lakes, so that had the country depended on 
Daniel Webster, the gallant Perry's flag ship could 
not have been kt'pt afloat. 

The catalogue is nut full, but it is sufficient. 

And who are Daniel Webster's associates in 
Massachusetts, who have made William Henry 
Harrison the bearer of their standard ? We will 
identify some of the leaders. 

John Davi?, (the Federal Harrison candidate 
for Governor against the patriot and incorruptible 
Marcus Morton.) And where has John Davis 
been? We have ju«t stated that, in 1814, Mr. 
Webster voted against rebuilding the Capitol. How 
his associate, Mr. John Davis, received the news 
of that outrage, will appear from the following 
statement: 

From the Worcester Palladium. 
SENATOR DAVIS. 

"John Davis is the man who gave three 
chEERs, in the streets of Worcester, when he re- 
ceived the news that the British army had sacked 
the city of Washington, and edrnt the Capitol." 

This statement we made on the authority of an 
unimpeachable witness, who stood within a few 
feet of Mr. Davis at the time. All three of the 
Whig papers of this town, the Spy, the .<Egis, and 
the North Bend, have denied that any thing of the 



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%ind ever occurred, and have hurled at the Palla- 
dium the keenest shafts their malice could com- 
mand. But not intending to be browbeaten by 
them out of what we believed to be truth, we have 
persisted in the truth of the statement. The ^Egis 
has pursued us with singular virulence, declaring 
as follows: 

"It is FALSE that ever a man of our population 
rejoiced that the Capitol had been captured, sacked, 
and burned;" and that "there is no person, gentle- 
man, or of other description, now residing in Wor- 
cester, who Will say that he ever knew or heard 
Mr. Davis, by word or act, exult over any victory 
of the British, becaase such an act was never done 
by him. It is a libel on our town to affirm that 
any of its citizens shouted when the intelligence, 
which stirred every breast with indignation, of the 
•capture of Washington, was received." 

Now mark how plain a tale shall put our reviler 
down ! 

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From the Jfutional JEgis of August 31, 1814. 
"Horrible depravitf. — When the news of the 
capture of Washington reached this town, some 
of the LEADING FEDERALISTS openly ex- 
pressed their GRATIFICATION, mingled with a 
REGRET thai the PRESIDENT was not involved 
la the DESTRUCTION OF THE Capitol!" 

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Pa ivX i^ hk m. hA. hk 

If we are rightly informed, the Democratic ^gis 
of 1814 (not the Federal Mgis of 1840) was under 
the control of a brother of the present Editor of 
the ^gis. Of course we shall have no more de 
Dials from that quarter, that "some of the leading 
Federalists" of this town were so horribly depraved 
as to openlj express their gratification at the de- 
struction of the Capitol. Shall we have any re- 
strictions'? Our accusation against Mr. Davis 
lags far behind that of the ^gis of 1814. We 
have not accused him of expressing a regret that 
the President was not involved in the destruction 
of the Capitol" though from the temper of his 
writings at that time, there can be little doubt that 
ihe destruction of Mr. Madison would have sent 
a thrill of joy through the frame of a man whose 
daily habit it was to calumniate him as base, per- 
fidious, cowardly, ond a "buffoon." 

In 1816, the year after the war, the same Mr. 
John Davis delivered an oration on the 4th of 
July, before the Federalists of Worcester. We 
give a few extracts, to show the character of that 
oration. 

" Could Federalists ex«lt in the discharge of se- 
vere and ungrateful duty, they might look back 
with proud sati?faciion on their career." 

" What is our remuneration for the toil, the la- 
bor, and the peril of that season of calamity? [the 
war.] Are the Canadas subdued? Have we any 
safer passport on the highway of nations? On 
these subjects the boasted treaty, which was sealed 
•with the hlo )dof thousands, is silant. What, then, 
are the Uo\ nies of that obdurate combat? National 
glory? And what is that national glory, achieved 
by the blood of thousands? Ask that blazing me- 
teor which coBsumed Moscow, and, shorn of its 



beams, has set in the Wester Ocean? [NapoIeoa.J 

" Our lesson, though less disastrous, ls not much 
less humiliating. 

"When the tax gatherer knocks at your doors, 
remember that the tribute he demands, is the pur- 
chase of national glory. 

" When the fishermen sees his occupation gone, 
let him remember that his Government have made 
sacrifice for national glory. 

" When the merchant murmurs that he is shut 
out from the We.^t India trade. let him remember 
it was abandoned in quest of national glory. 

"When in the disguise of double duties you pay 
an exorbitant tax on all foreiga commodities, [the 
tariff,] let it not escape your minds that this too is 
a tribute for national glory. 

"When yeu see the page of history which re- 
cords the sacking of Alexandria, and the deslruc- 
tion of the Capitol, remember that these were only 
propitiatory offerings on the altar of ambition, to 
secure the blessings of national glory. 

"The Federalists are gratified that they have 
erred so Utile, that they have boldly confronted the 
menaces of power, the wiles of ambition, and ia 
the darkest times advocated those great measures 
which were calculate'd to accelerate the prosperity 
and promote the permanent interests of the nationj 
while they have strenuously opposed that narrow, 
self-destroying policy, which was founded in party 
animosity, adapted to a foreign climate, and drew 
after it poverty, war, and the loss of invaluable 
national privileges." 

This is the eulogy which that modem pretender 
to the Jefferson school, "honest" ("ay, honest") 
John Davis, pronounced on the administrations of 
Jefferson and Madison. 

In the same oration, he extolled "the heroes of 
Chippewa and New Orleans, who had redeemed 
their country from infamy," while the only indi- 
rect allusion to Harrison, was as one of the actors 
"in that storm of vapid proclamations which, 
howled along our Northern border." 

Mr. Davis now holds the office of United States 
Senator, under the Massachusetts Federal Whigs, 
and is also their candidate for Governor. 

For several years he was their agent to collect 
the militia claims of Massachusetts for her share ia 
achieving what Mr. Davis sneered at as the mooa- 
shine of national glory ! 

Take a brief history of another of these "Whigs 
of the Jefferson school," who is associated with 
Mr. Webster in making General Harrisoa the 
bearer of their standard. 

Isaac C. Bates, one of the Harrison electors for 
Massachusetts, and a missionary of the Harrisburg 
Convention. 

July 14, 1812, this same Mr. Isaac C, Bates was 
secretary of the Federal Convention for Hamp- 
shire, Franklin, and Hampden, held at Northamp- 
ton, to denounce the war, every living man of 
which Conveation, save one, is now a Harrison 
Whig. Mr. Bates was chosen one of the Commit- 
ee of Safety, with Lyman, and Strong, and oth- 
ers, every living man of whom is now a high 
Whig, viz: Joseph Lyman, the Whig Sheriff of 
Northampton county, a surviving member of the 
Hartford Convention; Richard E. Newcomh, Judge 
of Probate for Fra»klia Lewis Strong, son of 



Governor Caleb Stron?; Elijah Alvord, Register of 
Probate for Franklin; George Grennell, Whigmem- 
Ijer of the last Congress; and 

Oliver B. Morris, Judge of Probate for Hamp- 
den, and Mr. W. B, Calhoun's confidential corre- 
spondent, to whom he wrote the letter (not to gel 
into the newspapers) to be used to satisfy the Abo- 
litionists that General Harrison was with them, 
and would do all in his power foir emancipation. 

That Convention, of which these living Whigs 
"were most prominent members, adopted a memorial 
calling on the President forthwith to make peace 
•with Great Britain; and they 

"Resolved, That our rulers [James Madison, &c.] 
have prostrated our national character, sacrificed 
our vital interests, and finally involved us unpre- 
pared in the calamities of war." 

This manifesto was signed by Isaac C. Bates as 
secretary. 

And he is the same man who, in February, 1812, 
pronounced an oration before "ihe Washington 
Benevolent Society" of the county of Flampshiie, 
ia which he eulogized Ames and Hamilton as pa- 
triots, and denounced Jefl'ersGn and Madison as 
traitors. Hamilton's system of, revenue — the very 
thing Mr. Van Burea and the Democracy are op- 
posing — he called 

"The main artery of the boJy politic, which 
even the Vandal band of this administration [Ma- 
dison's] dare not cut." 

Of the British treaty, the famous Jay treaty, he 
said, " We owe to it more of our prosperity than 
I can recount." 

Of Jefferson and Madison he said: 

"By none were the>e measures and President 
Washin,7ton himself assailed with more fatal efllect, 
than by Mr. Madison and Mr. Jefferson. The one 
led the opposition ia the House of Representives; 
the other a*9andoned hi? cabinet." 

Mr. Bates also sneerin«ly compared Thoma's Jef- 
ferson to Tom Paine, and exclaimed, ^'Par nobile 
fralrum!'" Here is a right "Jefferson Whig," truly. 

Mr. Bates is also the man who, in 1813, as a 
member of the Massachusetts Legislature, opposed 
the \var at every step. He also was prominent in 
supporting resolutions that the admission of Lou- 
isiana into the Union was a violation of the Con- 
stitution, and directing the delegation in Congress 
to obtain a repeal of the act of admission. Opp«- 
sition to Louisiana was a cardinal virtue with the 
Hartford Convention Federalists. And now these 
same men appeal to Louisiana to help them elect 
Harrison; and this same Mr. Isaac C. Bates was 
a principal asent in the nomination of General 
Harrison at Harrisburg, and is now at the head 
of the list of Harrison electors for Massachusetts. 
He also holds the office of commissioner on militia 
claims, growing out of the war he so vehemently 
Jopposed. 

Hon. Leverett Saltonstall is another of Mr. 
Webster's associates in making General Harrison 
the standard bearer of the old Federal party, under 
their new name. 

Mr. Saltonstall, in July, 1812, was chosen, with 
Timothy Pickering, delegate to the Federal rebel 
Convention held in Boston, August 6, 1812, to op- 
pose the war. He voted for an address on that 
jsJCcasioDj which says: 



"In an evil hour, Mr. Jefferson gained the Presi- 
dent's chair. 

"Our country, then prosperous, has been grier 
vously oppressed by ruinous commercial restric- 
tions, which for many years have been wantonly 
imposed by the Government of the United States; 
snd its measure of iniquity is now filled up by a 
declaration of war against Great Britain — a wai' 
impolitic, unnecessary, and unjust. 

"In this awful state of things, it is the urgent 
duty of the freemen of Massachusetts to consult 
together. This duty has become the more imperi- 
ousby the condition of the Government of this Com- 
monwealth, (Massachusetts,) of which op.e branch 
the Senate) is in the hands of usurpers devoted to 
the iniquitous sy«tem of the National Government^ 
(James Madison.) 

"Our ccmmon interests, liberties, and safety are 
now (1812) more injured, opposed, and endangered 
by the doings of our own National Government, 
than they were when, in 1775, we took up arms 
to protect and defend them against the measures 
of the British Government." 

Mr. Saltonstall, who adopted this abuse of Jef- 
ferson and Madison, July 21, 1812, at the Essez 
Junto Convention, is now held up as a Jefferson 
Democrat, (Heaven save the mark!) and is one o( 
the great Whig Executive Committee who are go- 
ing "to restore the days of our patriot Presiden;s." 
What Presidents? 

The Senate of Massachusetts, in 1813, which 
Leverett Saltonstall denounced as "usurpers de- 
voted to the iniquitous system of the National Go- 
ve;nraent," had a majority of Democrats, friends 
of Jefferson and supporters of Madison and the war. 
Of that Senate Marcus Morton, now the Demo- 
cratic Governor of Massachusetts, was clerk, and 
Samuel Dana (deceased) president. Mr. Morton, 
the clerk, wis turned out the next year, when the 
Federalists got the power. 

Mr. Salior.s'all was a prominent Federal mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts House in 1814, '15, and 
'IG. The journals v/ill sliow where he then was, 

October 13ih, 1814, Mr. Saltonstall was placed 
second on the committee to report upon the Hart- 
ford Convention: William Sullivan was chairman: 
Mr. Saltonstall was the prominent mover in the 
committee. 

Obtober 15, Mr. Saltonstall debated through the 
day in support of the convention. 

[Extract from (lie Boston Centinel of October 15, 1814.] 
. "The tilth resolution (calling the Hartford Con- 
vention) was debated through the day. It was sup- 
ported by Messrs. Knapp, Hilliard, Longfellow, 
Saltonstall, Hubbard, and others. It was opposed 
by Messrs. Webb. Green, Worthington, Aiken, El- 
lis, and Lincoln. The debate was able and spi- 
rited. Yess260, nays90." 

Of the above who supported the convention, 
three only survive, and are now Whig?. Of those 
who opposed it, five survive, all but two now De- 
mocrats. 

January 27, 1815, Leverett Saltonstall voted to 
approve the doings of the Hartford Convention, 
and 10 appoiat three commissioners to apply to (he 
United S'ates Government for the separation of 
Massachusetts from the States, in theJefeaceof he? 
territory. 



This same Mr. Saltonstall is now a Whig mem-' 
ber of Congress, and one of the "Whig Executive 
Committee" for the nation, who tell the people thai 
their object is " she restoration of the Government 
to^thedays of her patriot Presidents.''^ 

Mr. S. has violently opposed or denounced every 
Republican President from Jefferson to Van Buren. 
He never approved any administration but of the 
two Adamse?. He was chairman of the commit- 
tee of arrangements at the great Whig; dinner in 
Salem to Mr. Webster, in the panic o'f 1834, and 
was master of ceremonies in rf'eceiving Mr. John 
Bell, in 1837, when he came to lay Tennessee at 
the feet of the Federalists of Massachuseits. 

We will sketch but one more of General Har- 
rison's aid? in supporting the Federal Standard. 

Major Benjamin Russell, the Editor of the Boston 
Centinel through the war. To show where he now 
is, we quote tlie veteran's toast given at a celebra- 
tion of the last 4th of July by the Whigs of 
Boston. 

"By Major Benjamin Russell. The powerful 
American Whig Locomotive, with its attendant 
cars — The ConstituiioK, public prosperity, liberty, 
equal laws, the poor man's rijht?, and rich man's 
privileges — may the progress of their passengers to 
the Harrison polls be onward, forward, and straight- 
ward, hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, and their 
Journey be crowned with such success, as will in- 
duce all other Locos to join company, and unite 
cordially in the shout, "go ahead — for we now know 
the Whigs are right." 

Major Russell now knows that the Whigs are 
right; he scents the black cockade of General 
Harrison ! Then the V7higs were right when, 
■with Major Russell, who was a member of the 
House during the war, they voted for r.l' the 
measures of the Hartford Convention. The 
Major has not changed. He has the virtue and 
honesty to avow his ancient Federalism. At the 
polls, at the last election, he said, "I have always 
been a Federalist, and am now a Wliig, which is 
the same thing." He was a Whig, then, when he 
published the following Federal Whig doctrines; 

[From the Boston Centinel of July 13, 1812] 

"The union of the Northern and Southern 
States is not essential to the safety, and is very 
much opposed to the interests, of both sections. 
A peaceable separation would be for the happiness 
of all section's." 

[From the Centinel of Jane 26, 1813 ] 

"The events of this most abominable war make 
a very melp^ncholy impression on all who are not 
pecuniarily interested in its perpetuaiion. Besides 
the horrid effudon of human blood, the monthly 
expenses of the war are six millions." 
[June 30:h.] 

"The sailors begin to find oui that the war is car- 
ried on to protect foreign seamen on board our ves- 
sels, and to lake the bread out of their mouths." 

[A remarkable identity with the attempt of Mr. 
John Davis to pervert the speech of Senator Bu- 
chanan into an attempt to destroy the wages of 
labor.] 

[Centinel of June 28, 1813.] 

"It is not conceived that any future naval en 
counter, should we prove successful, can be of 
more consequence to the] country than a race 



gained by the horse Telescope, bred in Jersey^ 
would be over the horse Sweetbrier, imported froea. 
England. Our navy is not intended, by the Ad- 
ministration, to protect our commerce; and for the 
purpose of impairing the strength of the British, 
navy, it would be almost as reasonable to expect 
some Gulliver to swim over the British Channel, 
and bring it out of Plymouth in his finders." 
[From the Centinel of March 30, I816.--Exlract 
from the Federal address to the people.] 

"The malignant blasts of Democracy haveswept 
over us like a pestilence. Why she aid we vot^ for the 
Jeffcrsons, the Madi.scns, the Monroes, and theic 
modern satellites, who exhausted our resources, 
ruined our commerce, and chilled the life blood of 
our prosperity by A WICKED WAR, to gratify a 
foreign monster. Come forward, then, and brand 
with infamy the profligate ringleaders of Demo- 
cracy." 

After the election of Governor Btooks over 
Samuel Dexter, the Centinel of Apt il 10 ex- 
claimed — 

"Democracy is like the clump-footed cabbage. 
It sprouts in the wet and shade, but when the sun of 
Federalism shines, it decays and putrefies." 

"Mr. Jefferson, about this time, is repealing his 
exclamation, 'The devil is still in Massachusetts!' '' 

Here is one of your modern Whigs of the "Jef- 
ferson school," and he says he knows the Whigs 
are right in supporting Harrison. 

We might give more full leEgths of prominent 
Harrison standard bearers of the blue light school, 
but they are so numerous W3 must group them. 
Of these men, as above described by themselves 
who will not say: 

"They are where they ever have been and evei 
mean to be" — Federalists? , 

THE CONTEST BETWEEN JOHN ADAMS 
AND THOMAS JEFFERSOI)? IN 1804. 

Where were the supporters of Harri-on then? 

The Federalists of Massachusetts, then in power 
were so eager to defeat Jefferson, that they vio- 
lently changed the mode of choosing electors froa 
di<!tricts to a general ticket. This roused the Re 
publicans, and the whole electoral ticket was car 
ried by the p 'ople for Jeffcjrson, by a majority o 
3,533. It was the largest vote that had ever beei 
given in Massachusetts, then including Maine. 

Major Benjamin Russell, editor of the Centinel 
the Federal oigan, said: 

"The state of our national affairs, and the ac 
tivity of the partisans on both sides, has given ai 
extraordinary activity to the election; and in m 
instance, since the existence cf the State, will b 
found so great a number of votes given in. It ha 
been, emphatically, a struggle whether Ma-sachu 
setts would consent to become a colony of Virginia 
or a fi-ee and independent State." 

At that period, the supporters of Jefferson £alle 
iheir party Republican; but they were universal! 
nicknamed, by the Federalists, Democrats, as 
term of reproach. The Centinel thus announce 
the result of- the choice of the Jefferson elector! 
ticket: 

"The whole number of votes was 55,000. Th 
highest on the Democratic list had 29,310 vote 
The lowest on the Federal ticket, 25,126. Tl 
general result may be thus stated: For the Feder; 



ticket, 25,777; for the Democratic ticket, 29,310; 
<)dds, 3,533." 

The following extracts from the Boston Centinel 
cf that day will show the lines between the two 
parties, and ihe bitterness of the then Massachu- 
setts Federalists (now Whigs) against Jefferson 
Democracy and Virginia: 

"If Massachusetts is doomed to become a satel- 
lite of Virginia, no blame can rest on Suffolk. 

"TI.e result of the electoral choice in this State 
(for Jefferson) will not materially lessen the faiih 
of any genuine Federalist in the ultimate triumph 
of the principles of the Ccnstitiition as administer- 
ed by Washington and Mams. 

' 'Tis not in mortals to command success; 
They can deserve it.' " 
Before the election, the Centinel called for a ral- 
ly of its party, under the name of "the true Re- 
publican Federalists from 1788 to 1804." 

Of the Democratic electors chosen in Massachu- 
setts, it said, "They are all pledged to vote for 
Jeffeson aad Clinton," and added — 

"The white Virginians of the North dare no 
more deviate from their pledge to vote lor Jeffer- 
son, than the black Virginians dare disobey the 
orders of their drivers." 
Again, the. Centinel said: 

"The Democrats continue to profane the revered 
name of Washington, by opposing it to that of 
John Adams, and connecting it with that of Jef- 
ferson." 

The same paper gives a list of members of Con- 
gresT elected, and says: "Those in Italics are De- 
mocrats." 

Alden Bradford, the Federal historian of Mas- 
sachusetts, says of the success of the Jefferson elec- 
toral ticket, in 1804: 

"The Democratic party triumphed, much to 
the disappointment and mortification of the Fede- 
ralists." 

When Sullivan was elected Governor, the same 
■writer says: 

"For the first time after the Federal Government 
■was established, all branches of the Government in 
Massachusetts, in 1807, were Democratic, and 
again in 1810 and Ml." 

This is pretty conclusive as to what was m?ant 
by Fsderalist and Democrat in those days. Let us 
see, then, where the leaders are now. Mr. Al- 
den Bradford is now a very strenuous Harrison 
man. He was Governor Strong's secretary in the 
•war. 

In 1804, Massachusetts, including Maine, gave 
19 electoral votes. 

Where were the men who were identified in that 
contest between Adams and Jefferson, thirty-six 
years ago? and where are the survivors nov/? 

Of the Democrotic ticket of electors, headed by 
James Sullivan and Elbridge Gerry, not one is 
living. Like the immortal'signers of the Declara- 
tion, all have gone to their long homes. 

Of the Federal John Adams ticket, headed by 
David Cobb (the avowed monarchist of the reign 
of terror) and Oliver Wendell, but two are known 
to be now living, viz: Ebenezer Mattoon, of Am- 
herst, and Samuel S. Wilde, of Hallowell. Where 
are these men now? and where have they always 
Deeu? 



It was exultingly announced in the Whig paper© 
that, at the celebration of the last 4^h of July in 
Barre, where Daniel Webster was tfee Whig ora- 
tor, the veteran General Ebenezer iVlaltoon, a R»- 
yolutionary soldier, was present, and gave his voice 
in favor of Harrison ! 

And who iSiEbenezer Mattoon ;Whom the Whigs 
so exultingly parade in their log cabin proces- 
sions? 

He is tihe same man who, in 1804, was run as a 
John Adams elector against Thomas Jefferson, 
and was defeated by the Democrats of Massachu- 
setts. 

He is (he very same man who, in 1811, was re- 
moved from the ofiice of sheriff of Hampshire by 
Governor Gerry, afterwards Vice President with 
Jamas Madison. He was then taken up by the 
Federalists, and elected a member of the Legisla- 
ture. ^ 

And further, this General Mattoon, whose sup- 
port of Harrifon is exultingly proclaimed by the 
"Harrison Democrats," as they style themselves, 
was a Federal member of the Massachusetts Legis- 
lature in 1812, and voted for all the Hartford Con- 
vention measures, and signed the violent protest to 
Congress denouncing James Madison's war. 

In 1814, he was appointed one of Governor 
Strong's peace major generals, to prevsnt the 
Massachusetts troops doing any fighting! 

Such was and is this "Harrison Democrat,'' 
General Mattoon, a John Adams elector in 1804, 
a Harilord Convention Federalist in 1812, a 
"peace party" general in 1814, and a hard cider 
Whig in 1840. Verily, he is "where ha ever has 
been and ever means to be." 

The other survivor of the John Adams electoral 
ticket of 1804, is Hon. Samuel S. Wilde. We 
speak only of his political life. As a man and a 
Judge, he is learned and venerable. Where has he 
been? In 1814, he was one of Governor Caleb 
Strong'v- council, and sanctioned the refusal of that 
enemy of the Union to call out the militia as re- 
quired by the President. 

The 18th of October, 1814, he was chcsea & 
member of the Hartford Convention, and sat in se- 
cret conclave in that treasonable council. 

He was subsequently appointed a Judge of the 
Supreme Court of Massachusetts by Governor 
Strong, and in 1816 was chosen, by the Federal 
Legislature of that State, to vote against Monroe 
for President, and for Rufus King, the very man 
who proposed, on the floor of Congres.^, to furnish 
James Madison with a halter ! 

He is now a Judge of the Massachusetts Su- 
preme Court, and a Whig, or "Harrison Democrat," 
one of Mr. Webster's associates under "the signi- 
ficant banner !" He, too, is "where he ever has 
been and ever means to be." 

This was the beginning of the two parties. 
Federal and Democratic. Let us look a little 
farther. 

The war of 1812, and the Hartford Convention 
of 1814, were decisive tests of the two parties. 
How many who bore up the standard of rebellion 
in those days are now enlisted with Daniel Web- 
ster, John Davis, and their associates, in making 
General Harrison their "standard bearer !" 
June^O, 1812, a majority of the Committee of 



Foreign Relations in the House ijj Congress, to 
whom Mr. Madison's- message was referred, re- 
ported a manifesto as the basis of a declaration of 
war. 

The men who made that report were John C. 
Calhoun of Houtb Carolina, Felix Grundy of Ten- 
nessee, Ebenezer Seaver, of Massachusetts, John 
Smilie, of Pennsylvania, John A. Harper, of New 
Hampshire, and Joseph Detha, of Kentucky. 

The three first named still survive. Need we 
ask where are they? Two of ther^ are distinguish- 
ed Senators, supporting the Democratic adminis- 
tration of Martin Van Buren. The third resides in 
Roxbury, Massachusetts, excluded from public life 
by Federal malignity, ever since ne voie^f or the 
war, but uniformly Democratic. At the recent 
celebration of the 4th of July, he wrote a sound 
Democratic letter to the Democrats of Medfield, 
full of the pure doctrine. 

William Sullivan, of Boston, another of Mr. 
Webster's associates, who died within a year in 
the fall faith of British Whigery, (and who, were 
he now living, would rally around the Federal 
standard bearer. General Harrison,) held up these 
men to scorn in his Familiar Letters, published in 
1834. 

Mr. Sullivan was the ambassador of the Hart- 
ford Convention, sent to V/ashington in 1814 to de- 
mand of President Madison the separation of New 
England from the Union, in carrying on the war. 
He was an active partisan Whig to the time of his 
decease; and none better understood the motto of 
that party, borns on its significant banner at Balti- 
more: 

"We are where we ever have been, and ever 
.mean to be." 

Mr. Sullivan thus identifies the Federalists of 
1812 and the Whigs of 1834. He says: 

"When Mr. Madison came to the Presidency, 
tha opponent party were the Federalists. The op- 
ponent party of this day (1834) are citizens known 
by some other name, but they are meaof the same 
principles." — Familiar Letters, p. 282. 

Again, he says, (p. 366,)in'mourning over the 
disbanding of the Federal party by the second 
election of Jefferson: 

"The name (Federalist) became so odious that 
it was abandoned. It ought ever to have been the 
most honorable that any citizen could assume." 

In this we may see a shadowing forth of the 
second election of Van Buren, and the fate thai 
awaits the various names of "Harrison Demo- 
crats," "Lng Cabin Whigs," and "Hard Cider 
Republicans." 

At that period, the Federah'sts were exulting in 
the blind hope of defeating Mr. Van Buren's first 
election, just as they are now of preventing his 
second choice by the people. Mr. Sullivan talked 
then just a's the hard cider boasters do now. Hear 
him: 

"Are the people of the United States so far gone 
in despotism that they must submit? or can ihey 
in any way wrest their personal freedom, their Con- 
stitution, their honorable fame, the last hope of 
civil liberty, from the grasp of usurpers? 

"They have a formidable adversary to contend 
with. There is the President, (Andrew Jackson,) 



with a head and heart not better than Thomas Jef- 
ferson, but freed from the inconvenience of that 
gentleman's constitutional timidity," &c. 

"But there are encouraging indications of late. 
There is a hope that the real sovereigns cf ihe land 
are opening their eyes and their ears to realities. 
The day is near at hand wh-'n the people can save 
themselves and iheir Constitution, at its last gasp.** 

"But that which is astonishing and ludicrous is, 
that this army of patriot.? (the othce holders, &c.) 
announce and maintain that the people know, un- 
derstand, and approve of all their doings ! " 

"There is not the least doubt that a large majo- 
rity of the American people are disgusted and as- 
tonished by the usurpations of Andrew Jackson.'* 

Judge Hopkinson, of Pennsylvania, another 
veteran Federalist and modern Whig, who is now 
associated with Mr. Webster ivi supporting the 
Federal "standard bearer," exuliingly exclaimed, 
in the Pennsylvania Convention, Dec. 23, 1837, 
when the bank suspensions had given new hopes 
to the Opposition: ' 

"Notwithstanding all the calumnies that have 
been uttered against the Federal party, yet they 
are always at their post ia the hour of danger. 
Their principles are always invcked to rescue the 
country from difficulties it is plunged in by the 
rashness of their opponents. Thus in times of 
difficulty they triumph, and they are now again 
COMING INTO power. I sec somc honest faces pre- 
sent who are not ashamed to avow themselves Fe- 
deralists." 

Such is the identity of the old "Federal Republi- 
can" and the new "Whig Republican, " or "De- 
mocratic Whig" party. But let us return to the 
war and the Hartford Convention, and see where 
the present associates of Mr. Webster, in holding 
up their "standard bearer" Harrjson, then were. 

The war was declared June 18, 1812. We all 
know where Daniel Webster was then, and his 
motto says: "I am where I ever have been ajad 
ever mean to be." 

How was the d€claration received in Massachu- 
setts, and where are the men now? 

Hon. Samuel Putnam, of Salem, then a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts House, offered r. resolve, 
(June 2, 1S12, before war was ieclare'",) depre- 
cating the measuie, and reported a strong memo- 
rial to Congress against it, which passed, 406 to 
249. The memorial was disclaimed by the Repub- 
licans of that day, as humiliating to ii?, and mean- 
ly submissive to Great Britain. 

Of those who voted for this Federal protest, we 
have ascertained that thirty-nine are now living, 
and of these, all but one man are active, de- 
cided Whigs, associates of Mr. Webster in sup- 
porting Harrison as the "standard bearer" of Fe- 
deralism J 

We will give the name- of the most prominent, 

Samuel Putnam, of Boston, now a judge of 
the Supreme Court, appointed by Gov. Strong in 
1814. 

David Wilder, now the treasurer of the Common- 
wealth, elected by Whigs. 

Jonathan Hunnewell, an ex-Senator of Suffolk 
and now a modern Vvhig. 

Benjamin Russell, the old editor of the Fedexa 



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Centinel, and a toaster of Harrison at the last 4th 
of July dinner in South Boston. Visited the Bri- 
tish Seet off Boston in the war, and received John 
Bell in Faneuil Hall in 1837. 

Benjamin Whitman, of. Boston, an ex-judge of 
the Police Court, and a modern Whig. 

Isaac F, Davis, & present Whig meinber of the 
House from Boston, signed the Whig protest 
against Gov. Morton's address. 

Charles Jixkson, an ex-judge of the Sapreiue 
Court, apf^ointed by Gov. Strong, concurred in the 
opinion of the court in sustaining Strong in refus- 
ing to call out the militia in the war, and iu 1832 
was chos n a Whig elector against Mr. Van Buren 
for Webster or Harrison, against the patriotic 
Jackson. 

IVilliam H. Sumner, of Roxhury, ex-adjutant ge- 
neral, a prominent psitison of leg cabins, and an 
extensive specnlalor in lands. 

Daniel Messir\ger, of Boston, ex-member of the 
Legislature, and an active British V/hig, anda vice 
president of the Washington Benevolent Society in 
1814. ^ 

JLynde Walter, (father of the Editor of the Tran- 
script, a Whig paper,) ajiisiice of the peace. 

Lemuel Shaw, Chief Justice of the Supreme 
Court. Decided Whig. 

James Savsge, Whig member of Governor 
Everett's cbuncil, Suffolk ex Senator, present 
Whig member of the House, a signer of the pro- 
test against Governor Morton, and principal in 
contriving to "nicely count" the people out of his 
election ! 

Joseph Tilden, Prrs-ident of the Massachuset's 
Life Insurance Company, a great monopoly corpo- 
ration. Acii-'p Whig. 

Dudley L, Pickman, of Silem, brolher-in-Iavv of 
Mr. Saltonstall, Whig member of the Legi^^lalure 
in 1S34, and father-in-law of Richard S. Fay, who 
wrote the infamous circular to the Democratic 
workmen it; 'he Sandwich Class Company. 

John Pickering, (son of Timothy Pickering,) and 
now Whig city Solicitor of Boston. 



Thomas Greenleaf of duiacy, a modern Whig 
hard cider Hrrrisonite. 

Minot Thayer,of Braintree, Wh'g member of the 
Legishture, Harrison runner, and getter up of hard 
cider carousals. Signed the Federal Whig protest 
against the anrnirable address of Governor Morton. 
How this modern Whig stood in the war, will best 
be shown by (he following pithy extract frcra the 
old Republican Patriot and Chronicle, which we 
hope to quoie again, next November, when a true 
Dsmocra; sl<all be chosen in place of this "head- 
Long FederaiisL" 

Ft cm '.he Chronicle of May 13, 1813. 

"In BraiKtre-% a Republican Representative has 
seen chosen by a very handsome majority, in the 
liace of Minot Thayer, a thoroughgoing, headlong 
Tederalist." 

He, too, is "where he ever has been aad ever 
Qeans to be" 

Barnabas Hedge, of Plymouth, a prominent 
iVhig, just deceased. 

Nahum Mitchell, State Treasurer and Senator 
Lnder Governor Strong, and a member of his 
ouncil} a Federal Judge, and now a Whig mem- 



ber of the Legislature from Boston; signed the pro- 
test against Governor Morton. 

William Baylies, of Bridgewater, ex-member of 
Congress, from the district now .represented by the 
talented Henry Williams; voted against the remo- 
val 6f the deposites. Mr. Baylies tried once to be 
a Jackson man, but it was in vain he washed his 
old Federalism and cried, "Out, damned spot." 
He went back again, and is now very active in. 
the log cabin campaign; promised, it is said, to be 
elected U, S. Senator in place of John Davis, if he 
gets in Governor. 

Samuel Crocker, of Taunton, holding a State 
office under Governor Everett, and member of a 
corporation which threatens to turn out all opera- 
tives that won't vote for Harrison. 

Horatio Leonard, of Raynham, now the Whig 
Sheriff of Bristol county, an active Whig partisan. 
James Crowell, of Yarmouth, holding a State 
office, and an active Federal agent, now, and for- 
ever, of Mr. John Reed, the life member of Con- 
gress. 

Joseph Bowman, of New Braintree, a Whig ex- 
counsellor of Governor Lincoln in 1833. 

Edmund Dwight, now of Boston, Whig member 
Of the Senate, and Director in the Western rail- 
road. 

Ebenezer Mattoon, of Amherst, recently exhi- 
bited, at a log cabin gathering in Hampshire, as 
a RevohUionary veteran, in favor of the hero of 
Tippecanoe. Described before as a John Adams 
elector. His son, Ebenezer Mattoon, jr. is one 
of the signers of" the protest against Governor 
Morton. 

Ephraim Hastings, of Heath, an ex-Whig Sena- 
tor, and the defeated Harrison candidate in Frank- 
lin county, at the last election. 

Thomis Longley, of Hawley, a Federal Senator- 
in 1824, and voted against Seih Sprague's motion to 
Hxpunge the infamous resolution of J. duincy, 
pass'd in 1813, that it was immoral and irreligious 
to rejoice at thi' victories of our country ! Also 
delegate to a Whig convention that nominated 
Webster or Harrison in 1836, pledged to either or 
both. Mr. Longley was the man v;ho attempted 
to carry the Antimasons of Massachusetts for Har- 
rison or Webster, and failed in his plot. He was 
a Harrison elector in 1836. 

There are others of lesser note, but these will 
suffice as a sample of the whole. 

Not a man who signed the anti-war protest, ex- 
cept on», is now living, who ever voted any thing 
but the modern Whig ticket. How well they ful- 
fil the meaning of the motto of "the significant 
banner" of the Boston Delegation at Baltimore. 

"We are where w? have been and ever mean 
to be !" 

Of the protest against the war, (in Congress,) 
which these men approved, William Sullivan, the 
ambassador of the rebel Hartford Convention, 
says in his Familia Letters, p. 318, it is much su- 
perior to the Declaration of Independence ! This 
protest was drawn up by Josiah Cluincy. The 
surviving Massachusetts members of Congress, 
who signed ir, are Josiah duincy, of Cambridge, 
and Laban Wheaton, of Norton, Whigs. It was 
also signed by Mr. Reed, father of John Reed,- 
now Whig member of Congress, who voted against 



every measure to sustain the country during the 
war, and by Thomas Wilson, a brother of General 
James "Wilson, of New Hampshire, the Federal 
itinerant lecturer in Massachusetts. 

This was just before the war. Now let us go 
into the war. 
WHO WERE THE MEN THAT OPPOSED 

THE WAR? WHERE ARE THE SUR- 
VIVORS NOW? 

Governor Strong sent a message to the Massa- 
chusetts Legislature, June 23d, 1812, announcing 
and. denouncing the war. It was referred to a 
committee. The only survivor of that committee 
is Chai'les Jackson, of BostPn, the Webster and 
Harrison elector in 1832. He repoit. d an address 
to the people, bitterly denouncing "Madison's 
war," which passed, 165 to 56. 

A committee was forthwith appointed to report 
a fast "on account of the unexpected and calami- 
tous declaration of war." 

The only survivor of that committee is Edmund 
Dwight, now a Whig Senator for Suffolk. 

Seth Spragne, of Duxbury, (now a veteran De- 
mocrat, who sent a letter in support of the Inde- 
pendent Treasury to the Democratic celebration of 
the last 4th of July in that place, and was the De- 
mocratic 'cahdidate for Senator last fall,) was a 
State Senator in 1813, and, on his motion, Janua- 
ry 29, the Senate, then Democratic, (wiih Marcus 
Morton, now Governor, its clerk,) voted to build, 
provision, and equip a 74 gun ship, to be called the 
Massachusetts, and present it to the United States 
Government, to be employed by President Madi- 
son, during the war." 

This order was reported against in the House, 
by Charles Jackson, (the ex-Judge and Flarrison 
elector above named,) and defeated, 310 to 159. 

Of the 13 Senators who voted against the rbove, 
there are slill living, Solomon Strong, (a Judge,) 
Silas Holraan, Daniel A. White, (a Judee,) John 
Wells, Peter C. Brooks, and Harrison Gray Otis, 
all Whiss. 

MEETING IN PANEUIL HALL AGAINST 
THE WAR. 

July 15th, 1812, a great meeling was held in 
Faneuil Hall, which denounced the war, and vili- 
fied James Madison. The most prominent actors 
in that] meeting were Daniel Sargeant, Harrison 
Gray Otis, and Josiah Q,uiacy, They<:are now liv- 
ing, two in Boston and one in Cambridge, and are 
zealously contributing to try to elect General Har- 
rison. Two of them recently furnished means to- 
ward erecting the miserable log cabin on Charles 
Street, in their ward. 

Of Mr. Otis's philippic against Madison, at the 
Faneuil Flail meeting, the Federal historian says: 
"Like Demosthenes rousing the Athenians against 
Philip, his address awakened the citizens of Boston 
to a virtuous jealousy of the inirigues of France, 
and of those who are co-operating with her ruler 
to destroy the liberties of mankind." 

FEDERAL MEETING IN MIDDLESEX. 

July 15, 1812, a meeting of Federalists in Mid- 
dlesex county denounced the war. Of the most 
prominent actors in that meeting, four are now 
living, and all ardent Whigs, viz: 

Samuel S. P. Fay, Judge of Probate, re6ently 
ehairman of a great Whig meeting, and father of 



R. S. Fay, author of the infamous circular to the 
workingmen in the Sandwich Glass Company. 

Naihaniel Ausiin, Agent of Watren Free 
Bridge, appointed by Governor Everett; and Rev. 
iMr. Ripley, now living in Concord, one of the 
political preachers against the Governmant in the 
war, and a uniform Federalist, /saac fii/ce, regis- 
ter of probate. 

REBEL CONVENTION IN BOSTON. 

This was held August 6, 1812. Cul. Sumner, 
now ex-Adjutant General Sumner, (as above,) was 
secretary. Among the delegates, ihote nov/ living 
are, Charles Jaclsson, (as above,) Arlemas Ward, 
just resigned as chief justice of the court of com- 
mon plea?; William Parsons, son of Chief Jus- 
tice Parsons, (an extreme Whig;) Warrea 
Dutton, an ex-Whig member of the coun- 
cil, and Benjamin Gorham, ex-Whig member of 
Congres= — all now Harrisonites. 

Leverett Saltonstall, member of Congress, and 
one of the Whig Execative Committee for the 
Union, was also a delegate. 

WORCESTER CONVENTION AGAINST THE 
WAR. 

In August, 1812, a violent Federal conventioa 
met in Worcester county. Francis Blake, the 
most rabid Federalist and disunionist of the day, 
(not now living,) was at its head. He drew up a 
declaration in caricature imitation of ihe Declara- 
tion of Independence, which the convention adopt- 
ed. It was of a highly treason ble character, call- 
ing upon the people to withdraw from the Govern- 
ment all voluntary aid. 

This conventioa was composed of 80 members. 
Of these, 40 are known to be dead; 20 are not 
known to be living, probably dead; and the surviv- 
ing twenty are every one known to be Harrisoa 
Whigs. 

Elijah Burbank, of Worcester; Nathaniel P. 
Denny, of Leicester; Nathaniel Chandler, of Pe- 
tersham; Rufus Bullock, of Royalston, (jus- 
tice;) William Drury, of Holden, (justice;) 
Samuel Read of Uxbridge, (Whig member of the 
Legislature, 1837;) Nathan Howe, of Shrewsbury, 
(Justice;) Philip Delano, of New Braintree; Solo- 
mon Strong, (now a Judge of the Court of Com- 
mon Pleas; William Crawford, of Oakham, (Coua- 
ty Commissioner;) Aaron Tufts, of Dudley, (Jus- 
tice;) James Draper, of Spencer; Aaron Whi'e, of 
Boylston; Nathaniel Crocker, and Braddock Liver- 
more, of Paxton; Daniel Tenney, (Justice;) Artemas 
Bullard, and Jonathan Letond, (Justice,) of Sutton; 
Jonas Kendall, of Leominster, (of the Gluorum;) 
and Salem Towne, of Charlton, (Justice,) one of 
the committee to receive Mr. John Bell, at Wor- 
cester, in 1837. 

John Davis of Worcester, now the Harrison. 
Federal candidate for Governor, was not a mem- 
ber of that convention, being then at New Haven. 
WHO WERE THE ACTORS IN THE HART- 
FORD CONVENTION, AND WHERE ARE 

THEY1 

In October, 1814, Caleb Strong, the British Go- 
vernor of Massachusetts, called an extra sessioa 
of the Legislature, and sent theia a message, de- 
nouficing the war. 

On the 5th of October, Mr. Low, of Lyman, 
Maine, (deceased,) moved to raise a commit;ee 



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from all the New England States, to go to Wash- 
ington, and compel James Madison to resign, for 
having, "by the nefarious plans of his administra- 
tion, ruined the country !" 

This old Tory threat of rebellion has since been 
copied by the Boston Atlas, in 1834, in calling for 
an army of 40,000 men, to go to Washington, and 
compel the tyrant Jackson to restore the deposites 
— and by Robert Gould, one of the Whig Commit- 
tee of New York Merchants, in 1837, who de 
clined being on a distress committee of fifty, but 
demanded 10,000 armed men to force Mr. Van 
Bureu to rescind the specie circular and take 
broken bank bills. 

So uniformly does Federalism, from the begin 
ning till now, run in the same kennel of vaporing, 
bullying, and rebellion ! 

This low motion, as the Chronicle and Patriot of 
that day called it, was the basis of the Hartford 
Convention, which was reported October 13, 1834 
THE HARTFORD CONVENTION ORIGI- 
NATED ABOLITION AS A MEANS OF 

DISUNION. 

The fifth resolve was the test question of that 
measure, and to this we now call the attention of 
our Southern brethren, and the friends of the 
Union. It proves that old Tory Federalism was 
the father of Abolitionism, to dissolve the Union, 
as well as of modern British Whigery. 

The fifth resolve, after providing for delegates 
from the New England States, to meet in Hart- 
ford, to redress grievances, and prepare for a sepa- 
rate defence, &c. adds: 

"And also ta lake measures for procuring a con- 
vention of delegates from all the United States, in 
order, to revise the Constitution thereof, and more 
effectually to secure the support and attachment of 
all the people, by placing all upon the basis of 
fair representation." 

This secret de>ign of the Hartford Convention 
to disturb the original compromise of the Constitu- 
tion as to slave representation, has been studi- 
ously concealed, until it has been entirely for- 
gotten. 

We will HOW demonstrate that the Southern and 
Western Whigs, who suppou Daniel Webster's 
" standard bearer," in the person of Harrison, are 
directly allied with the Hartford Convention men, 
■who were the first disturbers of the constitutional 
compromise, and that they called for disunion, or 
abolition of the slave representation, during the 
war, precisely as the modern Abolitionists now do. 

Mr. Harrison Gray Otis, in his published defence 
of the Hartford Convention, affirms that its pro- 
ceedings were more ia conformity with the public 
sentiment of the Federalists of Massachusetts than 
any measure which had been adopted by that State 
since the acceptance of the Federal Constitution. 
[Letter 3, to the Editor of the Centinel.] 

In another letter, (No. 9,) he says that one of 
the objects of that convention was " to diminish the 
representation of slaves." 

And this amendment was sought, not in the 
mode provided by the Constitution, but by a con- 
vention of all the States, (not the people, but the 
Legislatures,) which was a direct measure of revo- 
lution. 

This is precisely what the extreme Abolitionists 



now contend for — a dissolution of the Union — or 
as ant^rJisent oft he Constitution, by the force of 
a general convention, in order to give Congress 
power over slavery in the States. 

Mr. Daniel Webster, one of the "standard 
bearer's " aids in the Harrison canvass, followed 
up this prominent object of the Hartford Conven- 
tion, in a report made by him to a meeting of Fe- 
deralists in Faneuil Hall, in 1816, ii\ w hich he re- 
ported resolutions declaring it the duty of Congress 
to abolish the transfer or sale of slaves from- one 
State to another. 

This was cited, and made the basi5 of a report, 
in the Massachusetts Senate, in 1838, upon the 
petition of Judge Oliver B. Morris, the confiden- 
tial Abolition correspondent of Mr. William B. 
Calhoun; and the same resolve, recommended by 
Mr. Webster, was passed, for interdicting the 
transfer of slaves between the States. 

The report of the delegates of the Hartford Con- 
vention, was fully adopted by (he Massachusetts 
Legislature, January 27, 1815, by a vote of 155 
to 48; Mr. Saltonstall in the affirmative. 

That report afl[irms, that, as soon as the new Ad- 
ministration was established, under Jefferson, a 
fixed determination was perceived of changing the 
former system, (Hamilton's,) which had given to- 
the nation a prodigious impulse toward prosperity. 
"Under the withering influence of this new system, 
the declension of the nation has been uniform and 
rapid." 

This everlasting cry of "ruin" would be enough 
'of itself to identify the old Pederal and modern 
Whig party. It is their never-failing Shibboleth, 
insomuch that, during the last war, when a mer- 
chant of Philadelphia said to Tuu it hy Pickering, 
that the country was abundant in resources to car- 
ry on the war, Mr. Pickering started in amaze- 
ment, exclaiming, "Why, sir, I thought you were 
a Federalist !" . 

So it is now. The New York Journal of Com- 
merce (a Whig press) insists that the country is 
prosperous, even with the Sub-Treasury, and all ' 
the Whig presses cry out against it, Locofoco t 
Every man who talks of his country's prosperity, 
is set down by the Whigs .as a Locofoco. 

But to come back to the slave question. 

The Haftford Convention report, (p. 15,) after 
attributing all the evils in the world to Mr. Madi- 
son's administration, says: 

"But it is not conceivable that the obliquity of 
any Administration could, in so short a period, 
have so nearly consummated the work of national 
ruin, unless favored by defects in the Constitution. 
To enumerate all the improvements of which that 
instrument is susceptible, is a task this conventioa 
has not thought proper to assume." 

They then propose the indispensable amend- 
ments, and say: 

"The first amendment proposed, relates to the 
apportionment of Representatives among the 
slaveholding States. This cannot be claimed as a 
right. Those States are entitled to the slave re- 
presentation, by a constitutional compact. It is 
therefore merely a subject of agreement, which 
should be conducted upon principles of mutual in^ 
terest and accommodation, and upon which no sen- 
sibility on cither side should be permitted to exist. 



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It has proved unjast and unequal in its operalion; 
and had this efifeci been foreseen, the privilege cer- 
tainly would not have been conceded." 

In conformity to this recommendation, thie Hart- 
ford Convention adopted, and the Federal Legisla- 
ture of Massachusetts approved, the foilowing: 

"Resolved, That the following amendment of the 
Constitution of the United Slates be recommended 
to the States, to be proposed by them for adoption 
by the State Legislatures, and, in such cases as may 
be deemed expedient, by a convention chosen by 
the people of each Stale. And it is further recom- 
mended that the said States shall persevere in their 
efforts to obtain such amendments, until the same 
shall be effected," viz: 

"First. Representatives and direct faxes shall be 
apportioned among the several Stales, according to 
their respective numbers of free perEons, excluding 
Indians not taxed, and all other persons." 

This was, in effect, the first public agitation of 
the dissolution of the Union, growing out of the 
slave question. Surely, then, it becomes a matter 
of vital interest to the friends of union and State 
rights, and of non-interference with the slave 
question in the States, to look to the "standard 
bearer" under whom Mr. Webster invites them to 
enlist. Nei'.her can he be trusted on the other side, 
for he is secretly pledged to both, and will there- 
fore belray both. 

General Wilson, of New Hampshire, tells the 
,people of Massachusetts, in his speeches through 
that State: 

"Thai General Harrison owes his nomination to 
the Massachusetts delegates to the Harrisburg Con- 
vention, and that he is therefore emphatically the 
Massachusetts candidate for the Presidency." 

Mr. Webster says to the Alexandria Whigs, (in 
his own name arid that of Mr. John Davis, the 
Massachusetts Whig candidate for Governor:) 

"We have made William Henry Harrison the 
bearer of our standard." 

Two, at least, of the Harrisburg delegates from 
Massachusetts, who secured the nomination of Har- 
rison, were the elders of the old school, viz: Hon. 
Samuel Hoar, one of the strongest advocates of the 
Hartford Convention, and Hon. Nathaniel M. Da- 
vis, who was a member of the Legislature in 1814, 
and voted for it. , 

IDENTITY OF THE HARTFORD AND HAR- 
RISBURG CONVENTIONS. 

Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, one of the Whig com- 
mittee engaged in "restoring the days of the pa 
triot Presidents !" voted for all the measures of 
the Hartford Convention, upon slave represen- 
tation; he has just made a labored defence of 
that convention in Congress, and has affirmed 
hat it was as innocent as the Harrisburg Conven- 
tion. 

He says this truly; for both conventions aimed 

at a sectional division of the country, and botSi 

struck at the rights of the Southern States: the 

fornier boldly and openly, the latter covertly and 

I cowardly. 

In 1814, the Southern and Western States up- 
held the country in a most fearful crisis, when 
every State at the North, except "Vermont, was 
under the control of the British party. Abolition 
■was then highly popular at the North, and therefore 



the Hartford Convention seized upon it, as an ad- 
junct to their designs of breaking down Virginia 
and the Republican Administration. 

The same men, under their new name of Whigs,, 
have now "made William Henry Harrison the 
bearer of their standard," and, by his secret letter?, 
through the agencies of such Noriliern Federal- 
ists as William B. Calhoun, Evans, Gates, and 
others, are striving to secure the aid of the Abo- 
litionists against the South, to enable them to put 
down the Democratic administration of Mr. Vaa 
Buren. 

Lei the South ponder well on these teachings of 
the history of the past. Let the North never trust 
a man v>ho, like General Harrison, "palters in a 
double sense." 

WHO WERE THE HARTFORD CONVEN- 
TION LEADERS, AND WHERE ARE 

THEY NOW] 

At his speech at Alexandria, June 11, 1840, Da- 
niel Webster, who appointed General Harrison his 
"standard bearer," exclaiiHed: 

"Fellow-citizens, we must not stop or falter in 
our oppoc-ition to the Administration, till our lost 
prosperity is restored !" 

When the Federal Massachvisetts Legislature as- 
sembled to oppose the war, preliminary to the Hart- 
fore Convention, Benjamin Russell exclaimed ia 
his Centinel: 

"All the branches contain majo'i'ies of the 
friends of peace, and whatever can be done to re- 
store their country to its lost prosperity, will be at- 
tempted." — Boston Centinely'May 96. 

The Federal measure to restore lost prosperity, 
in 1814, was the Hartford Convention. The 
Whig measure to do the same in 1840, is to restore 
the lost influerice of the Hartford Convention men, 
by means of the Harrisburg Convention, under 
Harrijon and hard cider ! 

LIST OF SURVIVORS WHO VOTED FOR 
THE HARTFORD CO:JVENTION. 

In the Massachusetts Senate, October 8, 1814, 
Harrison Gray Otis reported the bill for the Hart- 
ford Convention, which was carried. 22 to 12. Its 
p'-incipal advocates were Messrs. Otis, duincy, and 
White, all n>iw Whigs. Of those who voted for it, 
there are now living: 

Josiah Cluincy, President of Harvard College, 
Harrison Gray Otis, Thos. H. Perkins, and Daniel 
Sargeant, of Boston. 

Essex.— Samuel Putnam, a Judi^e of the Su- 
preme Court, app«in!ed by Gov. Strong; Daniel 
A. V/hite, of Salem, Judge of Probate and presi- 
dent of a Bink panic meeting, and also of the 
great Whig dinner given to Daniel Webster ia 
1834, when the decapitated figure-head of the 
frigate Constitution was exhibited by Parker H. 
Pierce, then chairman of the Boston Whig Com- 
mittee of Safety, and Subsequently the fugitive 
president of the Whig Commercial E^nk; Caleb 
Foote, the furious Whig Editor of the Salem Ga- 
zette, and an ex-member of Governor Everett's 
Council, is Judge White's son-in-law. 

Worcpster Silas Holman, of Bolton, holds a 

State office from a Whig Governor. 

Hamilton and Franklin.— Samuel Latbrop;^ 
Samuel C. Allen. 



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Bristol. — Samuel Crocker, of Taunton, merjber 
of a great Whig carporatirn, and an office holder. 

Plymouth. — Wilkes AVood, Judge of Probate, 
and now nominated for Harrison Elector for Ply- 
mouth District, by the V/hig Conveniion, held at 
Worcester, the 17th of June last— voted for and to 
approve the Hartford Convention, and to send am- 
bassadors to Washington. 

Judge Wrod headed the hard cider procession, 
with canoe -and cabins, that marched from Middie- 
boropgh to Bridgev/ster, the 4th of July last, to 
hear Robert C. Winthrop, esq. the Whig Speaker 
of the Massachusetts House of Repretenlaiives. 
Wilkes Wood was chosen a Federal Senator from 
Plymouth, in 1814, over Nathan Willis, then of 
Rochester, who was a Republican Senator for that 
county in IS 13, with Seth Spra;?ue, and voted with 
with him for his resolve to build a 74 gun ship, for 
the use of ;he United States, to carry on the war, 
and against Josiah duiacy's resolution not to re- 
joice at eui- naval victories. He was chairman of 
the ccm.iiitt-.'e that reported that Marcus Morton 
was chosen clerii of the ScMiate in 1813. Mr. 
Willis, new of Berkshire, is the Deraocraiu; candi- 
date for Litntenant Governor, while Mr. Wood is 
a candidate for Harrison fl-jctcr! 

Of the above 11 survivors, out of the 22 who 
voted for the Hartfoiti Convention in the Senate, 
all but one are Whigs and Hairi.<on men. Mr 
Allen, of Franklin, is a decided Democrat. He 
was one of those whom ivlr. Oti^ described as not 
exactly Federali.^ts, but " the flying squad." In 
his 8th letter, Mr. Otis speaks of " the Federalists," 
(or persons compoMng the majoriiy,) for, he adds, 
there were among them a few of the "flying squad" 
ia both Houses, in the session of 1814, when the 
convention wus formed. • Mr. Allen declined 
Toting on the first motion for the Hartford Conven- 
tion. 

Neither can we positively speak as tp Mr. La- 
throp, who has taktn no part in politics for some 
time. All the rest are earnest supporters of Harri- 
.son. They are 

"Where they have be^^n and ever mean to he." 
SURVIVING MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE. 

It is a diflicnk task to obtain a full list from so 
numerous a body. In what we have got, we have 
taken great pains, and carefully studied accuracy. 
If there is any error, it is inadvertent, and we beg 
it may be pointed out. 

In the Houfe, the yeas wero 260, nays 90; for 
Maine, 41 ya?, 21 nsy;; for Massachusetts proper, 
219 yeas, G9 nays. Those belonging to Massa- 
chusetts, who Voted for the convention, and are as- 
certained to be now living, are as follows, as accu- 
rately as we can learn. We atttich the Whig 
offices they now hold: 

Boston — ^Jonathan Hunnewell, (an ex-Whig 
Senator;) Stephen Codman, (of the duorum;) Ben- 
jamin R-ussell, (a Justice, ex-Editor of the Boston 
Centinel, toaster of Harrison the last 4th of July, 
ex-member of Governor Everett's cccncil, &c. 
&c.;) Benjamin Whitman, (ex- Judge of Pc 
lice under Governors Linclon and ^ Davis, of '.le 
duorum;) William H. Sumuer, (now of Rox- 
bury, ex-Adjutant General, and Jusiice of the 
duorum;) h-°njamin Weld, (now of Maine;) Oli- 
ver Keating, of Chelsea; Daniel Messinger and 



William Harris, (who were on the committee tha 
gave a pretended mechanics' dinner to Daniel Web r 
ster, Prentiss, of Mississippi, and Menifee, o r 
Kentucky, in Faneuil Hall, July, 1833; botl \ 
have been members of the House;) George G 
Lee, (formerly of the Essex Junto;) Lynde Wal 
ter, (Justice Peace;) Lemuel Shaw, (Chief JuS' 
tice of Supreme Court, appointed by Governoi 
Lincoln;) Thomas Barry; Richard Sullivan, (holds 
a State office;) Benjamin Gorham, (ex-Whig mem^ 
ber of Congress;) WOliam Sturgis, (recently ol 
the Senate and Flouse, made a speech in the IC 
cent rebellion in Faneuil Hall, May, 1837, said tc 
the enraged assembly that Amos Kendall would be 
eaten up, if he was present.) 

Essex Coontt. 

Salem. — Dudley L. Pickman, (member of the 
House in 1834, voted to denounce Jackson for 
veto of the bank;) Benjamin Hawkes; Elisha Mack, 
(Judge of Police Court;) John Glen King, 
(of the duorum;) and Leverett Saltonstall, 
( Whig member of Congress, of the Harrison Ex- 
ecutive Committee, defesder of the (Hartford 
Convention) faith in Congress, restorer of patriot 
Presidents, described by Joh« duincy Adams as 
"just such a monarchist as Jonathan Jackson, 
one of the E^ssex Junto, was !" delegate to the 
"Rebel Convention," with Timothy Pickering, in 
1812', master of ceremonies to receive John Bell, 
when he laid Tennessee at the feet of Webster, ia 
1837, &c. &c.) 

[Mr. Saltonstall must still be a Pederaist, or a 
very bad man, for he says, "A Federalist turned 
Democrat is the worst of all politicians."] 

Robert Emery, another Silera member, is now 
of Springfield. E. H. Derby is also living. 

Danvers. — Nathan Felton, Sylvester Otborn. 

Ipswich. — Joseph Farley, (Justice of Peace.) 

Beverly. — Robert Rantoul; Nathaniel Goodwin, 
(Cashier of Plymouth Baak.) 

Gloucester. — James Appleton; Jonathau Kim- 
ball, (now of Salem.) 

Rowley. — Thomas G3ge, jr. (now senior, Whig 
member of the House in 1833, a Justice.) 

Niwbury. — Josiah Little= 

Ncwburyport. — Jonathan Gage, (Justice of the 
Peace;) Isaac Ad»ms, (now of Meihuen;) Samuel 
Newmai^ (now of Andover.) 

Boxford. — Parker Spofiord. 

Andover. — Timothy Osgood. 

Haverhill. — David Howe, (Justice.) 
Middlesex CouNTyy^ 

Charlestown, — Joseph Hurd, /now of Stone- 
ham; John Soley, (of the duorunp.) 

Cambridge. — William Hdliatd, (member of 
ih? House in 1833, recently deceased; Royal 
Makepeace, (Stock Agent of the Cautoa Co. at 
Baltimore.) 

Medford.— Dudley Bill, (of the duorum.) 

Weston. — Isaac Pi^ke, (Register of Probate.) 

Framingham. — Abner Wheeler, (of the duo- 
rum, County Commissioner, and a ^Vhig candidate 
for Senator.) 

Reading. — Timothy Wakefield, (Justice of the 
Peace.) 

Groton. — Luther Lawrence, (very recently de- 
ceased, Whig Mayor of Lowell.) 



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NoRrOLK COONTT. 

duincy. — Thomas Ureen.eaf, (Secretary of the 
i'ederal Convention that nominated John Brooks 
or Governor, in 1822, and now a Justice for the 
IJommonweaitb. He is the only survivor of the 
eveo oui of all RepublicanNorfolk, who voted for 
he Hartford Convention.) 

Plymouth County. 
Plymouth. — Barnabas Hedge, (just deceased, a 
ustice;) Benjamin Brarahall, (now of duincy;) 
Nathaniel M. Davis, (now a Whig counsellor, 
ilected by a Whig Legislature to advise Governor 
Morton, member of the Harriaburg Convention.) 
Bristol County. 
Taunton. — Jonathan Ingalls. 
Raynham — John GUmore, (justice peace.) 
Norton — Isaac Hodges.^ 

Scnierset David Anihony, (justice.) 

Berkley. — Apollos Toby, (now of New Bedford, 
a justice of the quorum.) 

Troy, (now Fall River.) — Joseph E. Reed, (a big 
Whig, member of Bristol county Whig conven- 
flion.) 

Westport. — Abner Brownell, (of the quorum.) 
New Bedford. — Jireh Sv/ift, (then jua.;) J. Wil- 
liams. 

Barnstable County. 
Yarmouth. — James Crowell, (justice and com- 
missioner.) 

Welifleet. — Josiah Whitman, (justice and ex- 
postmaster, a Whi?;.) 

, [Nantucket and Dukes county sent no member.] 
Worcester County. 
Spencer. — James Draper. 
Uxbridge — Daniel Carpenter; Samuel Read, (of 
the Legislature in 1837.) 
Grafton. — Jonathan Wheeler. 
Lancaster. — William Cleaveland. 
Bolton. — Stephen P, Gardner, (of the quorum.) 
Sterling.— Samuel Sav/yer, Thomas H. Blood. 
Paiton. — David Davis, (then jr.) 
New Brairitree. — Joseph Bowman, (then jr. 
* member of John Davis's Council in 1834,) Justice. 
Hampshire County. 
Southampton. — Asahel Birge, (Jusiice.) 
Middlefield. — John Dixon, (Justice.) 
Granby. — David Smith, (Justice.) 
Amberst — Simeon Strong, (Justice;) Noah 
'Webster, (of dictionary fame, an ardent Whig, in 
I Connecticut.) [Not one nay in all Hampshire.] 
Hampden County. 
Locgmeadow, — Calvin Burt. 
Palmer. — Alpheus Converse. 
Blanford. — Alanson Knox. 
Chester. — Asahel Wright. 

Franklin County. 
Shelburn. — William Wells, (Justice.) 
Hawley — Thomas Longley, (before described.) 
Ashfield.— Enos Smith, (now of Granby.) 

Berkshire County. 
Lanesborough — Henry Hubbard, (Counsellor of 
Governor Lincoln in 1833, Whig naember of the 
House, 1836, and of the Q,uorum.) 

|l3^Eighty-five members of the House, who 
voted for the Hartford Convention, now living, 
(except three just deceased;) and of these all but 
two are known members of the preseat Whig 
party, and supporters of Harrison ! 



Adding the eleven surviving Senators and the 
six surviving members of the Hartford Conven- 
tion, who were not of the Legislature in 1814, and 
of this aggregate of ninety-nine .survivors, all but 
three are modern Whigs and Harrisonite^ ! 

Of the sixty-nine Massachusetts members who 
voted against the Hartferd Convention, but twelve 
survive. Of these, eight are still Democrats, one un- 
known, and but three are Harrison Whigs, viz: 
Lincoln, of Worcester, Gurney, of Bciston, and 
Fi*h, of Falmouih. 

SURVIVING MEMBERS OP THE HART- 
FORD CONVENTION. 

The Massachusetts Legislature chose these de- 
legates to the convention, in convention, October 
18, 1614. The Federalists cast 215 votes— the 
Republicans all refusing to act in this treasonable 
proceeding. 

The survivors of the Massachusetts delegates 
are: Hon. S. S. Wilde, (judge of the supreme 
court;) Hariisan Gray Otis, (a member of Con- 
gress in 1800, and voted for Aaron Burr against 
Jefferson;) William Prescolt, (an ex-judge and 
justice for the Commonwealth;) Hodijah Baylies, 
(judge of probate till 1834;) Daniel Waldo, (jus- 
tice of the quorum;) Stephen Longfellow, of Port- 
land; Joseph Lyman, (sheriff of Hampshire, and 
commissioner io qualify officers;) and Thomas H> 
Perkins, (one oi the commissiouers to treat with 
the President, signed the Whig handbill in 1832, 
that Pennsylvania had gone against Jackson.) 

0: Governor Strong's Council, who advised the 
Hartford Convention, two only survive, and both 
are Whigs, viz: Nahum. Mitchell, member of the 
House, and Benjamin Pickman, the son of a dis- 
tinguished Tory of the Revolution, member of the 
Essex Junto, and one of the committee to celebrate, 
in Boston, the restoration of the Bourbons. 

The only known survivors out of that conven- 
tion, cut of Massachusetts, are correctly ascertain- 
ed to be, Calviu Goddard, and Roger M. Sherman, 
of Connecticut; Benjamin Hazard, of Rhode 
Island; and Josiah Dunham, a s-upernumerary 
from Vermont, now in Lexington, Kentucky. 
They are ail Harrison Whigs. 

Here are one hundred and five of the direct 
original Hartford Convention school now promi- 
nent Whigs, and Democrats, (1) as is pretended, of 
the Jefferson school ! Add to these other survivors 
who supported legislative measures to get up or ap- 
prove that convention, 17 in number, and the pro- 
minent men in the primary conventions, still liv- 
ing, 18 in number; and it gives an aggregate of 
one hundred and forty-seven men of that school, 
nearly all in Massachusetts, who are principal ad- 
visers and actors in the efforts to restore the days 
of the black cockade, and, in the language of their 
expounder, Mr. Webster, "have made William H. 
Har.'ison the bearer of their standard !" 

Who can doubt the character of that flag, when 
these are the men who rally under ill Who can 
deny the aptness of t.he motto on " the significant 
banner?" 

" We are where we ever have been and ever 
mean to be !" 

Trace it still farther: Mr. Otis, in his defence of 
that convention, (which Mr. Saltonstall, as one of 
the Harrison Executive Committe, declares wjis a 



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patriotic bocly,) remarks that the actors in tbat con- 
■renlion have continued to I'eceive in Massachusetl& 
ample tesiimonials of public confidence. 

This is true. In fact, the principal ofBces in 
the State are now held by them; and ct those whose 
names are given in this list, ninety -two now hold 
offices of Whig appointment. 

To tbc.e riien, the prominent Whig counsellors 
in Massachusetts, General Wilson says, is owing 
the nomination of General Harrison ! Massachu- 
setts did it,- at.d if the Whig party of Massachu- 
setts directed the movement, who doubts that ii is 
what Judge Hapkins, of Pennsylvania, described, 
viz: the old Federal party striving again to get into 
power? 

JOSIAH aUINCY'S RESOLVE. 

As another test of identity, we will trace the 
resolve offered by Josiah Q,uincy, and .adopted by 
the Federal Senate of Massachusetts, just 11 days 
after the gallant Lawrence was killed on board tlie 
Chesapeake, the news of which had just been con- 
firmed in Boston. A resolve was pending for a vote 
of thanks to Captain James Lawrence for the cap- 
ture of the Peacock by the Hornet. Instead of 
adopting that resolution, it was voted, on Josiah 
dtiincy's motion: 

January 15, 1813, "That in a war like, the pre- 
sent, waged without justifiable cause, it is not be- 
coming a moral and religious people to express any 
approbation of military or naval exploits, which 
are not immediately cor-iiccted with the defence of 
our seacoast and soil." 

The Index of the old Senate Journal describes 
this resolve thus — "Declaring it unbecoming a 
moral and religious people to express approbation 
of success in such a war." 

It was passed without the yeas and nays. Fe- 
bruary 12, a motion to erase it from the journal wks 
reported against by a committee who say in their 
report that 

"The resolve of the 13ih of June is in itself highly 
correct and expedient to form the grounds of con- 
stitutional opposition and patriotic discouragement 
to the prosecution of the war." 

This passed, 20 to 8; and the survivors who 
voted for it were Josiah duincy, Thomas H. Per- 
kins, Samuel Putnam, Silas Holman, Daniel A. 
White, S. C. Allen, Solomon Strong, Nahum Mitch- 
ell, and James Richardson, of Dedham— all but 
Mr. Allen prominent Harrison men, and all now 
holding Whig State offices, three of them being 
judges in the land. 

The Massachusetts Senate continued in Federal 
hands till 1824, when William Eustis, Secretary 
of War under tvladison during the war, was elected 
Democratic Governor of Massachusetts, and Mar- 
cus Morton, Lieutenant Governor. 

Seth Sprague, now a Democrat, who had voted 
against the dnincy resolution in 1814, was a mem- 
ber again in 1824. On his motion it was resolved, 
92 to 15 

' January 17, 1824, "That the resolve of the 15th 
of June, 1813, and the preamble thereof, be, and 
tflc same are hereby EXPUNGED from the jour- 
Hais of the Senale." 

The survivors who voted against expunging, are 
Thomas H. Perkins, and Peter C. Brooks, of Bos- 
ton, (^father-in-lBw of Governor Everett;) S. P. 



Gardner, of Bolton; Thomas Longley, of Hawley, 
(who, in April 14, 1836, supported in the Massa- 
chusetts Legislature a law to be passed by Congress 
requiring twenty-one years' residence in the United 
Slates of all foreigners before they shall be allowed , 
to vole ! Aaron Tufts, of Dudley, (committee to 
receive John Bell;) Benjamin Gorham, (afterwards 
se»t to Congress;) Lewis Strong, and Joseph Strong, 
jun. (now Whigs in New York — Lewis Strong is 
a son of Governor Strong;) Nathaniel P. Denny, 
and Samuel Hubbard, of Boston. 

Ten out of the fifteen are now living, all Whigs, 
and each of them holding an office from a Whig 
Governor ! Of the twenty-two who voted for ex- 
punging, thirteen survive, of whom nine are De- 
mocrats and four Whigs. 

The names of the fourteen survivors in Masa- 
chusetts who voted against the Hartford Conven- 
tion, are, Eleazer C. Richardson, of Lynn; John 
Wade, of Woburn; Erastus Worthington, and 
Abaer Ellis, of Dedham; Gad Warriner, of West 
Springfield, (a Revolutionary pensioner;) William 
P. Walker, of Lenox; Phineas Allen, of Pittsfield; 
Aaron Hobart, jr. of Hanover; William P. Rider, 
and John Spurr, of Charlion — (Mr. Spurr was 
the Democratic candidate for Senator last year;) 
Christopher Webb, of Weymouth; Nathan Gur- 
ney, jr. of Ablngton, (now a Whig Alderman of 
Boston;) Thomas Fish, of Falmouth; and Levi. 
Lincoln, of Worcester. Of these fifteen, there 
are but four Harrison men, including Mr. Webb, 
of Weymouth, who has long been enfeebled. The 
rest continue Democrats. 

OFFICES HELD BY HARTFORD CONVEN- 
TION MEN. 

Of the survivors of the Federal party, who voted 
for the Hartford Convention, or against the war, 
in the Massachusetts Legislature, and were in 
that convention, sixty-eight now hold "civil offices 
under Whig appointments. Among them are 
twenty -nine of the most important offices in the 
State, viz: 1 Chief Justice of Supreme Court, 2 
Judges of Supreme Court, 1 Judge of Common 
Pleas, 2 Judges of Police, 5 Judges of Probate, 
1 Treasurer of the Commonwealth, 1 member of 
Congress, 2 Registers of Probate, 1 Counsellor of 
State, 2 Commissioners, 1 City Solicitor, 2 Sheriffs, 
I President of Harvard College, 1 Agent of Militia 
Claims, and 6 members of the Legislature, all mo- 
dern V/higs. 

Verily are these men made judges and rulers 
over us! 

THE HARRISON ELECTORS AND HART- 
FORD CONVENTION. 

Of the fourteen candidates now in nomination 
for Harrison electors in Massachusetts, all but two 
apostates are old Federalists, viz: 

Isaac C. Bates, Secretary of the Hampshire, 
Hampden, and Franklin rebellion convention to 
resist the war, July, 1812, and orator of the Wash- 
ington Benevolent Society, and one of the Federal 
Committee of Safety, to oppo&e the Government 
during the war, &c. [Mr. Bates continues his 
warlike propensities against his own Government. 
At a recent Whig gathering at Greenfield, be ad- 
vised the Whig^', if they could obtain redress in no 
other manner, to take down their muskets, and 
pick their flints !] 



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John B. Thomas, another Harrison elector, is a 
Federal son of Joshua Thomas, a member of the 
Hartford Convention. 

Robert G. Shaw, another, was a member of the 
Washington Benevolent Society ia 1813, '14, or- 
ganized as Federal clubs to oppose the war. [See 
Stebbins's Directory of 1813.] 

George Grincell, another elector, was a member 
of the same Federal conspiracy, and one of the 
Committee of Safety! appointed in 1812, by the 
Hampshire and Frailklm Federal Convention, to 
oppose the war. 

Wilkes Wood, another elector, voted for the 
Hartford Convention measures in the Massachu- 
setts Senate; voted to approve the acts of thai con- 
vention; voted against a vote of thanks to Andrew 
Jackson for the battle of New Orleans; voted 
against admitting Louisiana into the Union; voted 
not to provide for the United States' direct tax to 
sustain ihe war of 1814, &c. 

WHIG OFFICE-HOLDERS. 

Every one of these candidates for electors is a 
Whig office holder, viz: Mr. Bates, agent cf mili- 
tia claims; Mr. Shaw, commissioner for building 
the custom-house, president of a board, and direc- 
tor cf a railroad; Mr. Phillips, mayor of Salem; 
Mr. Sprague, justice of the quorum; Mr. Willard, 
a State Senator; Mr. Barton, judge of probate; Mr. 
Wood, judge of probate; Mr. Grinnell, master in 
chancery; Mr. Pomeroy, justice of the quorum; 
Mr. Mixter, justice for the Commonwealth; Mr. 
French, justice of the quorum; Mr. Tripp, the same; 
and Mr. Thomas, clerk of the courts, Mr. Long- 
ley is only a justice of the peace. 

This may serve as a specimen of the sincerity 
of the Whig horror of office holders. 
FEDERAL ELECTORS WHO VOTED 
AGAINST MONROE. 

The Massachusetts Legislature chose twenty- 
two electors, Nov. 1816, to vote for Rufus King, 
the Federal candidate for President, against James 
Monroe. They had 198 votes in the Legislature, 
which then contaiaed but 46 Democrats, who re- 
fused to vote. 

Of those electors, seven are now livings, all Har- 
rison men, viz: Benjamin Pickman, Samuel S. 
Wilde, Daniel A. White, Thos. H. Perkins, and 
Stephen Longfellow, already described in the fore- 
geing list. Also, Joseph Locke, Judge of Police 
in Lowell, and .Tonas Kendall, of Leominster. 

Rev. Henry Colman, now Whig Commissioner 
on Agricultural Survey, appointed by Governor 
Everett, was the messenger to carry the votes to 
Washington. 

OLD FEDERALISTS NOW IN CONGRESS 
FROM MASSACHUSETTS. 

In the present Massachusetts delegation, there 
are Daniel Webster, the bitter opposer of the war 
from the beginning, and John Davis, the author 
of the WorcLSter 4 th of July oration in 1816; 
Leverett Saltonstall, who supported the Hartford 
Convention in the House; Abbott Lawrence, a 
member of th« "Washington Benevolent Society" 
to resist the war; [see Stebbins's Directory, 1813;] 
John Reed, elected to Congress in 1813, over 
I. L. Greene, who had voted for the war. Mr. 
Reed was a member of the Barnstable Federal 
Rebellion Conventioa to denounce the war, of 



which "Squire David Scudder" was president. 
While in Congress, he voted against every possible 
measure to sustain the war, and virulently de- 
nounced Madison and Jefferson. William S. 
Hastings, a cniform Federalist, is the son of Seth 
Hastings, a Federal member of Congress in 1801, 
who voted for Burr against Jefferson. Wm. B. 
Calhoun, always a Federalist and United States 
Bank man, supported the ten million bank in Mas- 
sachusetts. John duincy Adams need only be 
nanied. Levi Lincoln is an apostate Republican, 
now acting with the men who opposed his father, 
Levi Lincoln, from 1800 to his death, and his son 
till his desertion in 1826. Mr. Briggs, we believe, 
is also an apostate. Gushing is too young to have 
acted in the war, but has since been plated all over 
wiih Silver Greys, and petted by the Essex Junto. 

William Parmentcr, who now supports Mr. Van 
Buren, was Secretary of a Republican Middlesex 
Convention, to nominate officers, in 1814, and a 
uniform war Democrat. 

MASSACHUSETTS REPRESENTATIVES IN 
COiSGRESS DURING THE WAR. 

Of these, every living man then from Massachu- 
setts, but one who opposed the war in Congress, is 
now a Harrison man, viz: Soloman Strong, (judge;) 
John Reed, (now a member;) Laban Wheaton,, 
William Baylies, Harrison Gray Otis, Josiah Q.uin- 
cy, Ariemas Ward, and Daniel Webster, then of 
New Hampshire. 

Massachusetts, since the Con.slitution, has elect- 
ed 175 men as members of Congress. Of these, 49 
are now living; 37 were elected as Federalists, and 
of these all but two are now Harrison men; 12 
were elected as Democrats, among them Marcus 
Morion, and all but five are now oppoed to Har- 
rison; 2 doubtful. The apostates are Crowning- 
shield; John Holmes, a Federalist in 1804; Shaw, 
Silsbee, and Judse Storv- 

THE OLD FEDERAL NEWSPAPERS OF 
MASSACHUSETTS. 

These are all now .supporters of Harrison, viz : 

The Boston Daily Advertiser, Repertory, Centi- 
nel, Palladium, and Gazette, united as the Ad- 
vertiser, edited by Nathan Hale, one of the stand- 
ing committee of the Washington Benevolent 
Society during the war. One extract from his 
paper will show where he ever has been and ever 
means to be. 

"My plan is to withhold our money and make a 
separate peace with England." [Boston Daily Ad- 
vertiser, 1814.] 

The Boston Evening Gazette, a Harrison paper, 
is conducted by W. W. Clapp, who was printer 
of the Daily Advfrtiser, and a reember of the 
Washington Benevolent Society during the war. 

The Transcript, another Harrison press, is edited 
by a son of a member of the above society, who 
voted for the Hartford Convention. 

The Courier, an ither Harrison paper, is edited 
by Joseph T. Buckingham, who now glories in 
the deflaration, "I will live and die in the faith 
of the Hartford Convention." 

The reasons why he supports Harrison are thus 
given by himself: 

From the Boston Courier, July 18, 1840. 

The Hon. Mr Fowler, who was a member of 
Congress with Harrison, has published a letter, in 



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■which he says that he knew Harrison as a supporter 
of the elder Adams, and that he has seen him wear 
the black cockade.— ^ornin^- Post. 

|X^ Well— he could not have worn a more ho- 
norable badge, nor could hs have supported a belter 
man. Now, we shall certainly go for Harrison. 

[Courier. 

The Whig Rf publican, a vehement Harrison pa- 
per, has juH been started in Boeton by Dr. Joseph 
Palmer, editor of the Centinel till transfered to the 
Advertiser, Mr. Buckingham, of the Courier, thus 
vouches for him: 

"He has one qualification, which we are almost 
afrcid to name, lest it may do him an injury with 
some of our exclusive patriots; but yet we feel so 
proudof the concurrence of seniiment on poliiical 
matters, which has always exisied between us, that 
•we cannot refrain from adding that Dr. Palmer is 
a pupil of the old school of Washington and Adams 
Federalism — true to the heart's core, and not 
ashamed to avow his principles." 

The Boi^ton Alias was not established until 1832. 
It has uniformly been under the comn 1 of the Bos- 
ton Federalists, and outstripped all others in abuse 
of Jackson, Van Buren, and Morion, and in sup- 
porting Hartford Convention men and the United 
States Bank. The Federalis's of Boston make it 
their principal Harrison organ. 

Throughout Massachusetts there is not now a 
paper which opposed the war, that is not a sup- 
porter of General Harrison. 

The V/orcester Spy, now one of the most virulent 
Harrison papers, is also the oldest Federal press in 
Massachusetts. In 1814, it was edited by John 
Davis, who is new the Whig candidate for Gover- 
nor against Marcus Morton. The following ex- 
tracts from Mr. Davis's editorials, in the midst o( 
the war, just after he had exulted at the burning ol 
the Capitol, the 24th of August, 1814, will show 
where he ever has been and ever means to be: 
Exb acts from the Spy, edited by John Davis, in 1814. 

?'We have uniformly entered our solemn protest 
against this desolating war, which originated in the 
wicked, ma'igaant passions of a corrupt and imbe- 
cile G^vprnment. 

"No Republican people were ever so harrassed, 
perplexed, and disgraced, by a captions and cor- 
rupt set of rulers, as the people of this country."* 
^, "Such a Government is worse than none. 

'5The truth is, oiir Democrats love to talk of war, 
and swagger, and boast, and vaunt, but they abhor 
fighting. When danger approaches, they skulk 
like dastardly poltroons. 

"The evils the Federalists have long predicted 
are thickeniog upon us; and in our affliction, let us 
always remember it is James Madison and his party 
that have brought these calamities on us. 

"We hope and believe the people will soon be 
convinced that Mr. Madison is totally incompetent 
to hold the reins of Government. 

"If the people have not become stocks and stones, 
so as to bear any thing, they must feel ashamed of 



'Almost the words used by Abbott Lawrence, the Whig 
member of Congreea from Boston at the ten cent rebellion 
meeiing about specie for postage in Faneuil Hall, May 17, 
1837 —"No people on God's aanh has been so trampled on and 
aubsedby their rulers as the people of the United Siates," said 
JSf, Lawrence. | 



their President; and their indignation will never 
subside till he is impeached, and the Government 
committed to other hands. 

"This wanton waste of property, this perverse 
neglect of duty, is sufficient to brand any adminis- 
tration with eternal infamy." 

In this violent Federal press, Mr. John Davis, as 
its ediior, applied the following epithets to James 
Madistm: 

"This modern Nero, this worthless confederate 
of Bonaparte." Despised at home and abroad." 
"This obstinate, infatuated i man plunges us into 
a wanton, wicked war — a cringing coward." "Our 
cowardly Captain General galloped his poor beast 
thirty miles from the battle ground." "The base- 
ness, cowardice, and perfidy of James Madison." 
"The crazy head" — "disgraceful conduct — idle 
vaunting and braggadocio, the more cowardly he 
acts, the more heroically he talks," &c. &c. 

"The conduct of such a man, (says John Davis,) 
is in the highest measure disgusting and degrading! 
Can we wonder that England dailies with us, when 
she has such a buffoon to deal with?" 

Such is the old Federal phrenzy of John Davis, 
the man these pretended "Harrison Democrats" 
and "Jefferson disciples" now seek to make Go- 
vernofr of Massachusetts, over one of the truest 
Democrats that ever lived. 

Thus much for the identity of old Hartford Con- 
vention Federalisni in Massachusetts with the 
mjdern British Whig Harrison party. 

The same result might be shown in the other 
New England States, and elsewhere. We have 
not access to the records. A sample will suffice. 
VIRGINIA. 

The Richmond Enquirer of August, 1840, states 
ihe fact, that, in 1800, the eity of Richmond gave 
254 votss for John Adams. 33 survive, and all 
but one are Harrison men. 91 voted for Jeffer- 
son. G survive, and all but one are for Van 
Buren. 

CONNECTICUT. 

Two members of the Harifoid Convention, and 
the secretary of that convention, are now living, 
viz: Roger M. Sherman, Calvin Goddard, and 
Theodore Dwight. All are Harrison Whigs. The 
Connecticut Courant, the organ of the Whig parly 
in that State, and always a Federal paper, is 
edited by Theodore Dwight. It is not excelled 
for bitterness, intolerance, and every thing anti- 
Democratic. 

A friend in Hartford writes — "So far as I am in* 
formed, the connections of every member of tbe 
Hartford Convention from this State are 'Whigs.' 
Truman Smith, the member of Congress, and one 
of the Whig Executive Committee with Salton- 
stall, Clarke, Botts, &c. is a nephew of Nathaniel 
Smith, a deceased member of that convention." 
VERMONT OLD FEDERALISTS AND HAR- 
RISON MEN. 

Hon. C. P. Van Ness, in a recent address before 
a Democratic Convention in Vermont, states tbe 
©'lowing fact: 

"In the year 1813, the Federalists obtained a 
majority in the House of Assembly of this State. 
A resolution was proposed that the members of 
both Houses should convene, on a day mentioned, 
10 offer up thanks to Almighty God for the victory 



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obtained by the Ameiican army under Harrison, 
near the river Thames, over the combined forces 
of the British and Indians. On the question of 
passing the resolution, ninety-five, all Republicans, 
voted in favor of it, and every Federalist against it, 
there being one hundred and eight Federalists (that 
is, for war with their own Government,) and I af- 
firm, that but one of these has come over to oar 
party. I also find that thirty-three of them are 
now dead. BUT OF THE SEVENTY-FIVE 
LIVING ONES, EVERY MAN— except the ONE 
already alluded to— IS A THOROUGHGOING 
MODERN WHIG." 

In an address before the Mountain State Demo- 
cratic Asscci uion, July 19lh, 1840, C. G. East- 
man, esq. cites notices calling meetings of the 
Washington Benevolent Society, by i!s Secreta- 
ries and Committees, to oppose the war, from 1812 
to 1815, which were signed by Horace Everett, 
(now Whig member of Congress;) David Pierce, 
(now judge of the county court;) Thomas F. 
Hammond, (now judge of probate;) Oel Billings, 
(now register of probate;) Darius Jones, (Editor 
of a Whii; Harrison paper;) and Norman Wil- 
liams, (clerk vf the court;) all leaders of the pre- 
sent Whig party. Mr. Everett, the member of 
Congress, was "agent of the Washingtonian" in 
1814, a vile Federal print, published by Josiah 
Dunham, a volunteer member of the Hartford 
Convention, and now a live Whiz ! 
THE WASHINGTON BENEVOLENT SO- 
CIETIES. 

The character of these treasonable Federal 
clubs, which perverted the name of Washington, 
as the modern Federalists do that of Whig and 
Democrat, and their close affinity to the present 
Whig associations, with their Harrison banners, 
shows, and parades, will be seen from the follow- 
ing facts: 

The preamble of the Constitution of the Massa- 
chusetts V/. B Society, organized February, 1812, 
says: 

"The V/. B. Society of Massachusetts was 
founded by a number of patriotic (?) young men, 
determined to exert themselves to restore the reign 
of Wa-hington principles and measures, and to re- 
lieve those of their brethren who, by the pressure 
of the times, might be reduced from a state of com- 
petency to wretchedness and ruin." 

This is the origin of the modern Whig cry of 
ruin, laid to the Administration. It was also the 
same trick now practised to seduce the laboring 
classes. Each member was required to sign a 
pledge, as the Whig Harrison Clubs now require, 
and there were to bs monthly meetings and ad- 
dresses, and public celebrations and parades. Wil- 
liam Sullivan, the Hartford Convention ambassa- 
dor, thus describes these Federal clubs, in his Fa- 
miliar Letters of 1834, page 325: 

"In 1812, the opponents of the Administration 
(Madison) found it necessary to combine, to obtain 
that protection which their rulers seemed volunta- 
rily to have withdrawn. For such reasons, they 
associated, under the name of the 'Washington Be- 
nevolent Societies,' throughout the State, (Massa- 
chusetts.) The difl!erent vocations among the me- 
chanics had their respective banners, bearing ap- 
propriate emblems of their calling. There were 
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other banners which bore the mottoes of peace^ 
union, fidelity, patriotism, etc. In the annual pro- 
cessions, these banners were carried through the 
sireels. The frowns and attempts of the war party 
(Democrats) to make these societies objects of sus- 
picion, and render them odious, served only to 
strengthen them, and convince their members of 
their nece.'siiy. If the day shall ever come wheu 
the like perils shall overtake the good citizens of 
the United States, let them remem'oer this ex- 
ample." 

Who can doubt that this hint of Mr. Sullivan 
has led to the present Tippecanoe club?, with their 
banners, parades, pledges, log cabins, and hard 
cider? 

Mr. Sullivan add?: "When the causes which 
produced these combinations [the war] ceased^ 
these also ceased; but their banners are still pre- 
served, and are occasionally produced to decorate 
the 'cra( I: of liberty.' " 

Some of the'.e banners have been exhibited, to- 
3:ether with a portrait of Caleb Strong, the Federal 
Governor in the war, at recent Harrison meetings 
in Massacbutetis. One, at least, was at the con- 
vention that nominated John Davis for Governor. 

Thomas Power, esq. was the Whig orator for 
the 4th of July last, in the city of Boston. This 
same gentleman delivered an oration, July 4th, 
1815,|befora thei Washington Benevolent Society, 
at Warwick, Mass. He now goes strong for Har- 
rison, is clerk of a court, and is one of the pretend- 
ed ''Jefferson school," in the Atlas Harrison tac- 
tics. Id his oration, in 1815, he said: 

"Jefferson imported a French Editor to subvert 
Federal principles, and establish his own on their 
ruins. This man was exalted to the highest office 
by the unceasing exertions of a party which, un- 
der the various names of Democrats, Jacobins, and 
Republicans, retained the same principles and 
views by which they were first distinguished. 
Charity can never form a veil to hide the dark 
atrocities which signalize that memorable period, 
[Jefferson's administration.] From that time, the 
clouds of adversity blackened our political horizon, 
and the sun ©f liberty was dimmed with the pesti- 
lential vapors of a desperate faction." 

Of Madison, he says: 

"Mr. Jefferson's best act was now performedj. 
he retired from office. To him succeeded Madi- 
son. A perfect parallel in political feeling, he pur- 
sued the same ruinous course; a mere satellite, and 
appendage to a wretch whose friendship is founded 
in perfidy." 

"The events of the late war completely charac- 
terize the Administration. It was commenced ia 
wickedness, prosecuted with weakae^s, and closed 
with disgrace!" 

"The Administration has nearly ruined our com- 
merce, lost some of the most lucrative branches of 
trade, and brought poverty and distress on a great 
portion of the country." 

After Mr. Thomas Power had achieved this 
brilliant oration iu 1815, the Federalists gave him 
this affecting toast: 

"The orator of the day: Eloquent, patriotic, and 
pathetic, [very!] with the Federal heel of hi^oric 
truth, he has bruised the heads of our party-colorec! , 
Democratic French serpents." 



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Who can doubt that this Harrison Whig orator 
of 1840, Ls "where he ever has been and ever 
means to be?' 

We have now discharged a great dut)'-, as we 
view it, to ths country, and especially to her 
youna; men Laborious as it has been to collect 
thessfact*, truth and the time^ demand it. V/e 
should have been reluctant to have revived these 
recolleciionS; had not our opponents sought to 
cheat the people, by basely attempting to change 
the names of the. two parties. This deception 
cannot avail in New England, for the men who 
meanly de-ctiid to u-;c it are known; but at the 
South and West, where all were patriots and all 
Republic -fr: in the war, the la;;dmarks may be re- 
moved, or at least disturbed, by these (orj^ers ci 
false titles to the confidence of the people, if they 
are noteirp. cj. 

The fac'^ ,e have here disclosed belong to the 
■whole cour.lry._ Let them be used by every man 
■who loves thai country, to prevent the remotest 
pojsibili'y of the Democracy of the South and 
Westcouiirj nnder the old Hartford Convention 
rule, in the di-puise of Whig Harri^cnism. 

The Bair'soii pany is the reorganization of the 
old Federr! party. Driven frem power by their 
real princi: m's, the leaders are desperately strug- 
gling one: iiere to regain their lost ascendancy, by 
denyirg th i' o^'t; identity. This, one of their great 
men foresaw ^bey would do, fifteen years ago. 
I When the Di rnocratic Eustis was elected Go- 
vernor of t j^'^^'^^.ohusetts, in 1824, and in his mes- 
sage place.-^ li-? seal of infamy on the Hartford 
Convention, Harrison Gray Otis, his Federal oppo- 
nent, adi-iie: >;d to the Governor a series of letters 
in defence cf ihat measure. 

Li the tl'^'se of that defence, he threatened that if 
the Federalists and their "familifs" continued to 
find then:selves e:; eluded from office in the nation, 
they would, tirst or last, from feelings of bitter 
RESESTME.x-^, bc driven to organize themselves 
again as a ;jdrty; and if they should not succeed, 
the consequences were to be the old story of ruin 
to the cour.try. 

The fir: ; -redirtion of Mr. Otis is fulfilled. The 
last, no XuZis f his will live to see. The Hartford 
Convenli^: "ederalltts, and "thkir families," are 
reorganiz ' iw a spirit of more "eitte.i res£nt- 
ment" ih.'. . '^ . er before inflamed their desperate 
ambition and greediness for power. They have 
put forward, a ; their great expounders and re- 
formers, Daniel Webster and his associates. 

"The si^aificart banner" has been consecrated 
by the Boston Federalists with its motto: 
I "We are where we e7er have been and ever 
mean to be.'' 

And in the natne of the assembled Federal hosts, 
Daniel Webster exclaims, at Alexandria: 

"We have made William Henry Harrison the 
bearer of ra^ standard, and while he holds it, it 
^aU not .alter, unless we fall along with it!" 



APPENDIX. 

The fo 'i)wiag disclosures, of recent da^e, throw 
■much lig u on the dark designs of the Hartford 
-Convemi 1 : 



LVIFRESSION THE BRITISH HAD OF THE 

HARTFORD COiNVENTlON. 
"Colonel G. C. Greene: 

"Dear Sir: The following statement was handed 
to me, in the handwriting ol Mr. Aaron Wallis, of 
Ipswich, in June last, without my having the shghl- 
est previous knowledge that any such facts were in 
his possession. I have known Mr. Wallis for the 
last eight years, particularly, and should place im- 
plicit reliance in his stateaeuts." No man's cha- 
racter stands fairer for upiightne.^s: he is a member I 
of the vestry, and ticururer of the Episcopal Church ' 
in Ipswich. Mr. Y/allts implicates no one. He 
relates the conversation of the British officer, which 
he has distinctly retaia'.d ever since it occurred, 
and which made a deep impression on him. He is 
lealy to at'est to the statement; but the laws of this 
Commonwealih wiUnot admit of an extrajudicial 
©ath. ( 

"My attention has been called to Ibis striking 
disclosure of Mr. Wallis by extracts just publish- 
ed in the Globe, from the British United Service 
Journal of May last, and the declaration that there 
is a correspondence in existence, which woald dis- 
close facts that would fully warrant the statements 
made by the British Major at. Halifax. 

"Yours truly, 
"B. F. HALLETT." 

"Sir: Af er perusing Mr. Parmenter's speech, in 
relation to the Hanford Convention, I find a very 
important part omitttd, viz: the view the British 
look of their asfembUng tfgefher. < 

" Being at that time at Halifax, a prisoner of 
war, at work, with John Shaiswell, of Salem, and 
Alexander Black, of New York, in the King's Store, 
on the north side of the Parade, at Melville Island, 
in the winter of 1314, one Major NicUholds, or Ni- 
chols, of the 90th t r 92d regiment, (I think tLe 92d J 
acting, as was i-aid, as a-'sistant quartermaster ge- 
neral of his majesty's forces at Halifax, came on 
to the island about 2 o'clock, p. m. After transact- 
ing some business with the royal .Trtilleryman, with 
relation to the telegraphic flags, &c. he came into 
t' e store, where Shatswell and myself were making 
a chest of drawers, and Black a sleigh, all for Cap- 
tain Cuchett, of the royal navy, the transport agent 
for prisoners, and said, ' Well, boys, what are you 
at?' 'At work for the agent, sir.' After inquiring 
as to our fare, treatment, &c. he said, ' Well, boys 
where do you belong?"' Shatswell and myself 
hailed from Salem, and Black from New York. 
' How long have you been here?' We answered 
according to time; when he immed ately said to 
Shatswell and myself, that we should be sent home 
in a few days, as the Nantucket men had beei. 
We inquired the cause; and he immediately stated, 
that ' a convention of delegates from the New Eng- 
land States meet this day at Hartford, for the pur- 
pose of withdrawing from the Union, and declaring 
their neutraliiy, when all the New England men 
will be sent home, as the Nantucket men have been, 
immediately.' 

" We made inquiry how this was to be brought 
about, and he replied, ' The whole has been ar- 
ranged. The fleet in Boston Bay will watch a favo- 
rable wind, and appear oflf the light, when the troops 
at South Boston will take up their line of march 
ihroagh Boston for Charlestown, ostensibly for the 



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protection of the navy yard, but in fact to preven* 
Commodore Bainbridge trom shedding blood. 
The fleet will sail up past the Castle, wiih^ut firing 
a gun; and the troops at Charlestown will imme- 
diately march into the navy yard ; and the 
choice officers, already selected, will surround Com- 
modore Bainbridge, and say to him, Sir, do your- 
self no harm; you must not burn powder this day; 
and no one will hurt you. The fleet will anchor off 
Long Wharf, and rsll will be quiet infimediately, as 
the naval commander has his orders to place Har- 
rison Gray Otis at the head of affairs, until ihe 
pleasure of the Prince Regent is known. All this 
has been arranged among ihe leading men; but will 
not be made public until the fleet anchors off Long 
Wbarf.' 

"Black inquired, 'what will you do with me?' 
'As you belong to New York, you must ride it out; 
we shall not go lo New York — rnly to the New 
England States.' — 'By God,' said Black, 'you had 
better not go there; you will find old Tompkins at 
home !' 

" So sanguine wa's Major Nickholds of the s'lc- 
cess of the whole plot, that he de^^lared his bel-ef 
that the five-striped flag would fly at ihe State- 
house in less than one fortnight. He further stated 
that we should know all about it in a few days, as 
a gun-brig or sloop-of-war,- 1 think a gun brig,) 
had sailed for Casiine, a week ago, to fetch down 
the news, and would be back shortly, when we 
should know all about it. 

'■ Sir, when you were at Ipswich, last fall, 1 
staled to you that I supposed I was in possession of 
some facts, in relation to the Hartford Convention, 
that I was desirous of making known, but dared 
not, for fear of the consequences to my family. 
The above are the facts alluded to at that time. 
They are how at your disposal, p'ovideJ you work 
them into the history of our country, where they 
be lor g. 

"Your obedient servant, 

AARON WALLI3." 
"To B. F. Hallbtt, esq. 

"Ipswich, June 24, 1840." 

The Briti.'-h United Service Journal of May, 
1840, discloses the following facts, which tend 
strongly to corroborate the testimony of Mr. Wal- 
lis. It is hardly necessary to say that Mr. W. 
never saw this work, which was published last 
May, in Great Britain, and which holds a semi- 
ofQcial rank as the chronicler of the military and 
naval service. 

[From the British United Service Journal.] 
"Among the many dangers to which the Ameri- 
can Republic must always be exposed in a war 
with Great Britain, not the least is that of a split 
among themselves, and consequent break up of 
their Federal Union. The slave question is a 
wedge strong enough to effect this at any time; but 
we could employ another nearly as powerful." 

After stating that the Western Siatfs were in 
favor of the war, the British writer adds : 

"Not so with the New Englaaiers; they, on the 
contrary, began to cast about to see how they 
could best extricate themselves from the strait to 
which the mad policy of Mr. Madison and the Ge- 
neral Government had driven them. The inhabi- 



tants of the island of Nantucket made an overture 
to our commander-in-chief to remain perfectly 
neutral during the war, excluding the armed ves- 
sels of both belligerents from their harbors; whilst 
in another quailer, a far more exten: iye scheme of 
'nullification' was seriously set on lOOt. and begat 
to make a rapid progress amongst some of the 
most respectable and influential inh /oi ants of New 
England." 

With these originated the Hartford Convention; 
and Ihe object of that body, the British writer 
say.s : 

"Wa'? to separate the Northern and. Easternfroai 
the Southern and Western States, to establi'^h a 
limited monarchy in the first mtmed Slates, placing 
one of our princes of the blood oa the throne, and 
strengthening the new transatlantic kingdom by 
an alliaoce oflTensive and defensive with England. 
The treaty at Ghent put a stop lo the correspon- 
dence which was in active progress on this subject; 
but that correspondence is still in existence; and, 
however improbable it may appear to Yankee 
pride, were a war to break out again between us, 
somethirg similar would occur before the 'United 
States' were two years oldsr. The destruction of 
the public buildings at the nominal S;-^* of the Fe- 
deral Govern nent, it was conceived, would indi- 
rectly, if not directly, forward the views of the 
New England separatists." 

[United Service Journal of Mag, 1840. 
This avowal seems to explain the extraordinary 
conduct of the British oSicers in destroying the 
public buildings at AVashington, contrary to all 
usages in civllizid warfare. Was it to aid the 
Northern Federalists ia establishing a separate 
seat of Government eisewherel Was this the rea- 
son that Mr. John Davis exulted at the burning of 
the CapitoH Was this the reason that Daniel Web- 
ster and his Federal associates voted against re- 
building ill 

The preliminaries to the Hartford Convention 
had their origin in John Henry'.; mission to New- 
England, in 1809. The British Governor thus in- 
structed Henry. 

'■^Gevernor Craig's instructions to Henry, dated 
doEBEC, February, 1809. 
"I request you to proceed with the earliest con- 
veyance to Boston— obtain accurate information. 
The wealth of Massachusetts— the number of its 
inhabitants— the known intelligence and ability of 
several of its leading men, must give give it a con- 
siderable influence over the other Eastern States, 
and will probably lead them in the part they are 
to tako. Your judgment and coiiLiections there 
will guide you. 

" I use general terms in describing the object 
in view. It hxis been supposed, that if the Fede- 
ralists of the Ea.'.tera States should be succesiful, 
and obtain the decided influence which may 
enable them to direct the public opinion, it is 
not improbable that, rather than submit, they 
will exert that influence to bring about a sepa- 
ration from the general Union. How far, in 
such an attempt, will they look to England for as- 
sistance, or be disposed to enter iaio a conneetioa 
with us! 

"You are rot to appear as an avowed, agent — 
continue to obtain an intimacy with the leaders, 



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.and cautiously advise them, that if tbey wish to 
enter into any communication wiih this Govern- 
ment, you will transmit it to me." 

Henry, in his letter to his employer, thus de- 
!5cribed, in 1809, what acually was begun, and, 
but for the peace, would have been consummated 

ia 1815. 

"BcsTON, March 6, 1809. 

"I have already driven a decided opinion that a 
declaration of war is not to be expected; but, con- 
trary to all reasonable calculation, shoula Congress 
possess spirit and independence enough to place 
their popularity in jeopardy by ro strong a mea- 
sure, THE LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHU- 
SETTS Vv'lLL GIVE THE TONE TO TFIE 
NEIGHBORING STATES; V^^ILL DECLARE 
ITSELF PERMANENT UNTIL A NSW 
ELECTION OF MEMBERS; INVITE A CON- 
GRESS, TO BE COMPOSED OF DELEGATES 
PROM TPli: FRDERAL STATE3, AND 
ERECT A Sii?.^. RATE GOVERNMENT FOR 
THEIR COMMON INTEREST. A. B." 

To the Sc.me effect, in his letter from Burlington, 
Vermont, ihe E;i;ish Spy pledged that Suite to re- 
bellion, through the Federalists. He '.aid; 

"The Fede.'al party declare that, in the event of a 
war, |l5^tlie State c'f Vermont will treat separate- 
ly for itself wish Great Britain; and support to the 
utmost the stipulations into which it mny enter, 
without any regard to the policy of the General 
Government." 

There is one man living, who ha.s in his posses- 
sion the evidence to prove the destgn of the Fede- 
ralists to cstabiifb a Ni>rthern ccnfi deration. He 
declared "his in his reply to Mr. Otis and twelve 
other kadinsr Federalists of Boston, the 26ch of De- 
cember, 1828. That man i- J"hn Cluiacy Adams. 
He is now with the Ftderalists, and, therefore, 
«nless he should change Egain, will, most likely, 
let the proof die with him. The fact that he peis- 
sesses this evidence mny acce^unt for the e xtiaor- 
dinary docility with which the Bostr»n Federalists 
bave always submi'.ted to his cEstisations, and 
always received bim into favor, let him do or say 
"what he weuld. There is ope passage in his let- 
ter to Messrs. Oiis, &c. of 1828, which strilnngly 
coincides v. iih the declaratioa of Major Nichols 
to Mr. Wallis. 

Exliaclfrcm Jdr. »4f?(t/i)s's Idler. 

"It was in those leiteis of 1808 and 1S09> that I 
mentioned the deMgn of certain leaders ef the Fe- 
deral parly, and the e,3tablishment of a Northern 
confederacy, &c. 

" This plaa was so far matured, that the pro- 
posal had been made to an individual, at the proper 
time, to be placc?d at the head of the military move- 
ment which, it was foreseen, would be necessary for 
carrying it in'o execution. 

*'The interposition of a kind Providence averted 
the most oepicralls of catastrophes, and turning 
over to the recepta.'-le of things lost upon earth, the 
adjourned convention from Haitford tu Boi^ton, ex- 
tinguishei'. (by the mercy of Heaven, may it be 
forever!; the projected New England confede- 
racy." 

REFERENCE. 

The precr nng statements have been prepared at 
the soliciial'ou of many friends of the Administra- 



tion in distant States, where the Whigs are assum 
ing to be the real Democratic party, and are 
attempting to practise this deception upon the peo- 
ple. The facts are derived from the public records, 
the Federal newspapers of that period, and through 
direct infonaation from persons ne-^r the localities 
of the individuals named. As nothiog but the 
names would render the facts indiputable, they 
have been given, and for no other reason. The 
details are bilieved to be strictly accurate in every 
essential particular. It is probable that all the 
survivors bave not befn ascertained. Their names, 
however, would unquestionably increase the aggre- 
gate resulu; as ihey now s and. 

For the purpose of giving this assurance to those 
at a distance who may copy or refer to this state- 
ment, and to furnith a relerence, should any of the 
facts be cahed in qnstion in other States, we attach 
our names. CHARLES G. GREENE, 

B. F. HALLETT. 

Boston, August, 1840. 



TO THE EDITOR OF THE GLOBE. 
FEDERALISM AND FEDERALISTS. 

My atteiition has been been arres ed by the quo- 
talioti from t^ie London United Service Journal for 
May, (a work condi'.cied' under high auspices and 
patronage) that appeared in your paper ©f the 3d 
instant, stating that a plan was formed in New 
England duri'^g the last war for separating the 
Northern and fisslern from the Southern and West- 
ern Stales, a!)d e.<tabtishing a limited monarchy in 
the former with an English prince of the blood to 
be at its head; the quotation adding that the 
treaty of Ghent "put a stop to the correspondence 
which was iu Ective progress on this subject;" and 
also afhrming that "that correspondence is still 

IN EXISTENCK." 

Here is important history, which I believe to be 
entirely true, and therefore highly proper to be 
recalkd at the present junctuie. In connection 
with the subject, I send you an extract from a mi- 
nute made of a conversation I had with Mr. Mon- 
roe in 1813, then Secretary of Stale. It is as fol- 
lows: 

"October 18th, 1S13. In the course of to-day, 
Mr. Monroe made to me the following; remarkable 
communicHtion, viz: that a communication had 
been msde to him within a few days that there at 
present existed, and for some time had existed, ia 
Mapsachusctts, what was called a royalist commit- 
tee; that it was composed of our own ;Citizens who 
were the most violent, and some of them the most 
prominent, members of ihc Federal party; that its 
object was to endeavor to bring about a disunion 
of the State.'?, erect New England into a separate 
Confederacy and invite the Duke of Kent (father 
to the present dueen of England) to be at the head 
of it. Mr. M. added that the person making 
the communication, exhibited to him papers 
purporting to be copies of letters from the 
Secretary of the Duke of Gloucester, from the Se- 
cretary of the Duke of York, and from the Secre- 
tjry of the Prince Regent, to this royalist commit- 
tee upon the subject of their plans, saying that the 
originals might be produced. No names were men- 
tioned to Mr. Monroe, but ths communication was 
desigoed to put our Government on its guard." 



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As further corroborations, let me recall, through 
your columns, facts upon which history has put the 
seal of truth. 

1. The proceedings of the legislative bodies of 
the New England Stafes, but especially of Massa- 
chusetts and Conneciicut, and the official commu- 
nications and acis of their two violent Federal Go- 
vernors, Strong and Griswold, from time to time, 
during the war, denouncing our own Government, 
and upholding directly or indirectly the whole con- 
duct and doctrines of the enemy. 

2. The steady reiusal of the enemy to blockade 
the harbors of Massachusetts during the war. 

3. The memorable order in council by England, 
In October, 1812, authorizing the importation, un- 
der license, of provisions from the United States 
into the British West Indies, f jllowed by a circular 
to the colonial Governors, directing that these im- 
portations should be from the ports of the Eastern 
States exclusively, should sufficient supplies come 
from them. President Madison, in communicating 
this order in council to Congress, on the 24th of 
February, 1813, accompanied it by a message, in 
which he held ap to the just reprobation, of the 
world this attempt to withdraw a portion of the 
United States from their allegiance to their own* 
Government — a most atrocious and demoralizing 
weapon to be used in war. 

4. The final meeting of the Hartford Convention, 
in December, 1814, who sent on their ambassa- 
dors, in the per'son of Mr. Harrison G. Otis and 
others, to Washington, in February, 1815; who, 
on their arrival there, were met by ihe double news 
of General Jackson's rout of their British friends at 
New Orleans and the treaty of Ghent, which not 
only cut short their unholy embassy, but sent them 
back to their brother Federalists in New England, 
overwhelmed with shame, which they have ever 
since been striving to shift from thsir shoulders. 

Will not the present Democracy of New Eng- 
land remember these things? And more: will not 
Massachusetts especially? Will not every patriotic 
citizen in that quarter of the Republic, desire, by 
his vote in November, to exclude from the execu- 
tive chair, a candidate confessedly of the Federal 
faith; the faith of Caleb Strong, Timothy Picke- 
ring, John Lowell, Harrison G. Otis, the Rev. Mr. 
Parrish, and names like these fully consigned by 
the verdict of history to public odium? Let it not 
be doubted. Let not the contrary be supposed pos- 
sible. That more is known in England than we 
in this country will ever be likely to know of the 
treasonable designs of the New England Federal- 
ists during the war, every intelligent man who re- 
calls facts, and knows how to reason upon them, 
will feel sure. The United Service Journal would 
hardly have affirmed so positively that the "corre- 
spondence is still in existence," without good 
grounds. What has the Federal party earned at 
the hands of the American people, but distrust and 
abhorrence for ages to come? For years after the 
war, so ashamed were they of their very name that 
they would not use it; yet at length do we find them 
rallying under the banner of William Henry Har- 
rison ! They count upon an oblivion in the public 
mind of all our past history, but they count with- 
out their host. REGULU3. 



WHIGERY IS FEDERALISiM. 

The Federal Whigs in some parts of the Unio« 
are attempting to make the people believe that the 
present Democratic party is the old Federal party, 
and that the present Whig party is the old Jeffer- 
son Republican party ! For this purpose, they have 
collected some half dozen names of gentlemen who 
once acted with the Federal party, but, having be- 
come converts to the Democratic faith, are now 
supporting the principles and measures of the Ad- 
ministration. 

To put down this falsehood, C. G. Greene, edi- 
tor of the Morning Post, Boston, and B. F. Hal- 
LETT, esq. have collected and embodied a mass of 
information, which most effectually puts down this 
Whig pretence, and fixes old FEDERALISM upon, 
the FOREHEAD of Whigery, black and damnwg as the 
mark of Cain. 

Daniel Webster and John Davis, the two 
Whig Senators from Massachusetts, are shown by 
their sayings and doings to have been thoroughgoing 
British Tory Federalists during the last war. 

John C. Bates, who heads the Harrison elect 
toral ticket in Massachusetts; Oliver B. Morris, 
Mr. W. B. Calhoon's agent to bring the Aboli- 
tionists over to Harrison; Leverett Saltonstall, 
one of the Abolition associates of Bell, Botts, and 
Garland on the Whig Executive Committee at 
Washington; were violent enemies of Madison and 
the war, and, with Benjamin Rdssell, editor of the 
Boston Centinel, in former times opposed Jeffer- 
son and Madison, as they have recently Jackson 
and Van Boren; and as they were then Jor the Bri- 
tish, are now for Harrison. 

Alden Bradford who was Gov. Strons's Secre- 
tary during the war, is now for Harrison. 

Ebenezer Mattoon and Samdkl S. Wilde, the 
only two survivors of the John Adams electoral 
ticket of 1796, in Massachusetts, are now Harri- 
son men. 

Ebenezer Seaver, one of the committee in Con- 
gress who reported in favor of the war of 1812, is 
a Democrat. 

William Sullivan, lately deceased, was one of 
the ambassadors of the Hartford Convention to 
Washington, and was a modern Whig at the time 
of his'death. 

Judge HopKiMSON, an old and leading Federalist, 
exclaimed, in the Pennsylvania convention, in 1837: 
"Thus, in times of difficulty, they [the Federalists] 
triumph, and they are now again, coming into powtr. 
I see some honest fates present who are not ashamti 
to avov) themselves Federalists.^^ 



££ 



Samuel Pdtnam, in June, 1812, reported, in the 
Massachusetts Legislature, a strong memorial to 
Congress against a declaration of war, which was 
adopted by 406 yeas to 249 nays. Of the Federal 
yeas, thirty-nine are now living, thirty-eight of whom 
are now HARRISON WHIGS. 

This memorial was signed also by two Federal 
members bf Congress, both of whom are now Har- 
rison Whigs. 

When Governor Strong heard of the declara- 
tion of war, he sent to the Legislature a strong 
message against it, which was echoed by the report 
of a committee. The only survivor of that commit- 
tee is Charles Jackson, one efthe Harrison elec- 
tors in 1832. A committee was appointed to re- 
commend a fast on account of the wicked declara- 
tion of war; the only survivor of whom is Edmund 
DwiGHT, now a Harrison Whig Senator in that 
Slate. 

Governor Morton was clerk of the- Democratic 
Senate of Massachusetts in 1813. Seth Spragce, 
now a Democrat, voted to build a seventy-four gun 
ship, and present it to the General Government, 
Of the thirteen Senators who voted against it, six 
are now living, ALL HARRISON WHIGS. 

The three most prominent actors in the Faneuil 
Hall meeting against the war, in July, 1812, are 
now living, and ALL HARRISON WHIGS. 

Of the Middlesex meeting, in July, 1812, to de- 
nounce the war, four of the most prominent actors 
are living, ALL HARRISON WHIGS. 

Of the Worcester convention, in August, 1812, 
which adopted a highly treasonable address in re- 
lation to (he war, twenty members are known to 
be living, ALL HARRISON WHIGS. 

Samuel Hoar and Nathaniel M. Davis, two of 
the delegates to the Harrisburg Convention, which 
nominated Harrison, \f ere old Federalists, the for- 
mer having been one of the strongest advocates of 
the Hartford Convention, and the latter having 
been in the Legislature and voted for it. 

Leverett Saltonstall, one of the present Whig 
committee of Congressmen, was in the Legislature, 
and voted for all the measures preparatory to the Hart- 
ford Convention, in the Massachusetts Legislature. 
Of the eleven survivors of those who voted for the 
Hartford Convention in the Senate of Massachu- 
setts, TEN ARE HARRISON WHIGS. 

Of sighty-five members of the House of Represeta- 
tivcs recently surviving, who voted for the Hart- 
ford Convention, EIGHTY-THREE were Har- 
rison Whigs. 

Of the TWELVE survivors of those who voted 
against the Hartford Convention, EIGHT are now 



Democrats, one unknown, and three Harrison 
Whigs. 

All the known survivors of the Hartferd Convention, 
TWELVE in number, are HARRISON WHIGS. 

Of Governor Strong's Council, who advised the 
Hartford Convention, the only TWO survivors are 
HARRISON WHIGS. 

Of those who voted in favor of Jcsiah Q,cinct's 
resolution, that "it is not becoming a moral and 
religious people' lo rejoice over the victories of 
the war, TEN survive, NINE of whom are Har- 
rison Whigs. 

In 1824, upon the motion of Seth Sprague, then 
and now a Democrat, this resolution was expunged 
from the Senate journal. Of those who voted 
against expunging, TEN now survive, ALL HAR- 
RISON WHIGS. Of those who voted for ex- 
punging, thirteen survive, of whom NINE are 
Democrats, and three Harrison Whigs. 

Of the fourteen candidates for Harrison elec- 
tors, now in nomination, TWELVE are old Fe- 
deralists and TWO apostate Democrats. Every 
one of them is now a Whig office holder! 

Of the Federal electors who voted for Rdfus 
King, in opposition to James Monroe, in 1816, 
SEVEN are now living, ALL HARRISON 
WHIGS. 

Of the ELEVEN Harrison Whig members of the 
present Congress from Ma^-sachusetts, EIGHT are 
old Federalists, two apostate Democrats, and 
one too young to have had any character at the 
time of the war; Vvhile Mr. Parmenter, one of the 
Democratic members, is an old school Republican. 

Nine of the old Federal members of Congress, 
during the war, still survive, EIGHT of whom are 
now Harrison Whigs. 

Every old Federal NEWfPAPER in Massachu- 
.SETTS, which opposed the war, now supports Gen. 
Harrison for Pre.sident. 

Having thus identified old Federalism and Har 
RisoN Whigery in Massachusetts, the exposition 
gives a few items from other Slates. 

In Richmond, Virginia, thirty-three Federalists 
who voted for old John Adams, still survive, THIR- 
TY-TWO of whom are Harrison Whigs. Of 
those who voted for Mr. Jefferson, six now survive 
five of whom are still Democrats. 

It might he added, that B. W. Leigh, who heads 
the Harrison electoral ticket, became a Federalist 
in the days of Jbpferson, and begged forgiveness of 
his God for ever having been a Democrat! 

In Connecticut, the two surviving members and 
the secretary of the Hartford Convention, are 
Harrison Whigs, 



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la the Vermcnt Legislature of 1813, a resolution 
was proposed fixing on a day of thanksgiving to 
AlmightjGod for Harrison's victory on the.Tharacs, 
which was voted down by the Federai majority. 
Of that majoriiy, stventy-Jive are now living, 
SEVENTY-FOUR of whom are Harrison Whigs. 

The exposition contains the NAMES of the per- 
soHs referred to in raosl ca?es,with many other items 
of information not alluded to in this summary. 

READ IT, Democrats, Whigs, honest men of 
all parties; and if yon are not convinced thai 
ANCIENT FEDERALISM and MODERN 
WHIGERY are the SAME THING under dif- 
ferent names, "iieither vAll you be convinced though 
cne rose from Ike dtad.'^ 

The appendix to the exposition affords further 
evidence, in addition to other recent developments) 
that the object of the leading Federalist; in Mas-a- 
chusetts, during the war, was to ESTABLISH A 
MONARCHY, with one of the royal family of 
England at its head. Mr. Wallis says, the Brit- 
ish Colonel NiCHOLs told him, the "Naval Com- 
mander had his orders to place Harrison Gray 
Otis [now a leading Harrison Whig] at the head 

OP affairs, until the PLEAStIRE OF THE PRiNCE Re 
GENT WAS KNOWN." 

What that "pleasure" was to be, appears to 
•have been already an anged. The British United 
Service Journal of May, 1840, says, the object was 

"to separate THE NORTHERN AXD EaSTERN FROM 

THE Southern and Western States, to ESTAB- 
LISH A LliVllTED MONARCHY IN THE 
FIRST NAMED STATES, PLACING ONE OF 
OUR PRINCES OF THE BLOOD ON THE 
THRONE," &c. 

From a communication lately made to us, and 
published in the Globe, it appears that our Govern- 
ment was not ignoran*: of this treasonable conspi- 
racy. In October, 1813, Mr. Monroe, then Secre- 
tary of State, told our correspondent "that a com- 
munication had b°2n made to hiaa, within a few 

days, THAT THERE AT PRESENT EXISTED, IN MaJSA" 
CHOSETTS, WHAT WAS CALLED A ROYALIST COM- 
MITTEE; that tt was composed of our own citi- 
zens, who were the most violent, and some op 



THEM THE MOST PROMINENT, MEMBERS OF THE FE- 
DERAL party; that its object was to endeavor to 
bring about a disunion op the states, erect 
New England into a separate confederacy, and 
INVITE THE DUKE OF KENT [ralhr to the 
present Q.ueen of England] TO BE AT THE 
HEAD OF IT," &c. 

It appears from these evidences, that Sarrison 
Gray Otis was only to be Regent until a syrig of 
roya'ty could be got from Europe, to mount the 
Yankee Throne, and be proclaimed KING OF 
NEW ENGLAND ! 

Do any of our readerj suppose that the old Fe- 
deralists who support Harrison now are any 
more patriotic or honest than they were when they 
opposed our Government and the war in 1813? Is 
it believed that they are LESS MONARCHISTS 
now than Mr. Jefferson savs they were 
prior to 1798, or than it now appears they were in 
1813? It may be that they HAVE ceased to look 
abroad for a King, and contemplate an empire 
somewhat larger THAN New Ekgland: bu^t to 
suppose that their principles are changed, is to be- 
lieve that the "Ethiopian CAN change his skin and 

THE leopard his SPOTS." 

Democrats, if any of yeu have been deluded 
into the LOG cabin of Harrison Federalism, escape 
from it with all expedition ! It is but the turkey 
trap of the cunning hunter; and if a majority of 
our people venture into it, they must expect to have 
heir feathers plucked off and their necks wrun^, to 
611 the beds and furnish the tables of a ROYAL 
MASTER, surrounded by his PRIVILEGED OR- 
DERS! Startle not! The Royalssm of New 
England Federalism i? a matter of history; the 
Ritner conspiracy against the people of Pennsyl- 
vania, supported by arms, is fresh in your recollec- 
tion; and BEHOLD, your bank presidents, pen- 
sioners OF the treasury, and aspiring lawyers, 
NOW roaming the country and threatening to 
govern the people by force, ifthey cannot 

GOVERN THROUGH THE BALLOT BOX ! What is thlS 

but MONARCHISM AVOWED?! Will you 
EMBRACE it, Republicans of America? Then vote 
FOR Harrison, and PLACE IN POWER THE 
MONARCHISTS WHO SUPPORT HIM. 



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